Small banks have spent years shrinking their residential development portfolios, but a rebound in housing starts could bring more lenders back to that market.

When industries and business environments evolve, the best and brightest people and organizations in that industry will as well.

SunTrust Banks (STI) expects its heightened volume of mortgage refinancings to continue next year, even while other banks and industry analysts are projecting a slowdown.

Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Officer Brian T. Moynihan said the firm has plenty of capital and he's confident it will pass the next U.S. stress tests.

The $630 million-asset company has agreed to buy Potomac Mortgage Group in northern Virginia for $19 million in cash and stock.

While there are worries that an eventual rise in interest rates will hurt real estate prices, experts in multifamily housing also believe that the market's fundamentals are solid.

Heritage Oaks Bancorp (HEOP) in Paso Robles, Calif., has appointed a longtime financial manager as its chief financial officer.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any nastier between banks and credit unions, the credit unions are opposing a TAG extension that many small banks have been pushing for.

Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren successfully beat out GOP incumbent Sen. Scott Brown securing herself a spot on the Senate Banking Committee.

Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren has secured a spot on the Senate Banking Committee and she'll be joined by Sen. Joe Manchin, according to a Democratic Senate aide.

Better communication can improve the relationship between banks and their regulators.

A sharp rise in noninterest income — including gains on asset sales — helped banks and thrifts record their best quarterly earnings total in six years, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said Tuesday.

The $6 billion-asset company based in Indiana, Pa., said Monday it has appointed Jon Gorney as a director.

Bankers had long paid Equifax and the credit-services unit of Computer Sciences for the same credit reports. Now that they are poised to merge, banks could push for lower fees, experts say.

An online-bank board's appointment of John Keach Jr., a community banker who had to sell his bank this year, provides a ray of hope for industry veterans.

A lawsuit that charged three ratings agencies with wrongdoing in the sale of mortgage-backed securities cannot advance, a federal appeals court in Ohio has ruled.

Stewart Larsen, Bank of the West's head of mortgage lending, still frets about pending regulation, but he prefers to stay focused on matters he can control.

Here we find a bank president, who makes a loan commitment over a martini - if I may be facetious - without even looking if there is an olive in the glass.

Bank of Hawaii (BOH) in Honolulu will exit the American Samoa market in the first quarter by closing its two branches in the U.S. territory.

Citigroup has managed to train the chief executives of a number of leading banking and card network execs over the years, despite its well-documented troubles.