JPMorgan Chase plans to offer instantly issued debit cards in 2,000 branches, primarily in in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, by the end of the year.

Small banks have long seemed best able to cultivate small-business customers because they could offer a more personal touch, and now big banks are increasingly trying to replicate their success.

Bankers should be a resource for their communities beyond making loans and sponsoring little league teams. Here are a few fresh ways to get involved.

M&T Bank is letting customers put a photo of their own (or one from the bank's gallery) on their check card, for $7.95.

Neil W. Brown, the chief risk officer at TCF Financial, has resigned from the Wayzata, Minn., company.

Bruce Lee will step down as its chief credit officer for Fifth Third Bank (FITB) in Cincinnati, for personal reasons, at the end of the year, the $117 billion-asset company said Monday.

BancorpSouth in Tupelo, Miss., will have a new chief executive for the first time in nearly 22 years, with James D. "Dan" Rollins 3rd succeeding Aubrey Patterson.

To prove and defend their capital adequacy, community banks must focus on linking the results of stress testing to the core principles that underlie Basel III's stand-alone ratios.

Suit aims to block the Commerce Bank founder and CEO from selling his book on how to "WOW" customers.

Banner Corp. (BANR) in Walla Walla, Wash., will buy back preferred shares from investors who purchased them from the Treasury Department in March.

Nancy Sheppard, who plans to retire next year as CEO of the Western Independent Bankers, wisely pushed the group out of lobbying and into executive training, bankers say.

The $8 billion-asset subsidiary of Northwest Bancshares (NWBI) said Wednesday it would buy The Bert Company, which operates an employee benefits and property and casualty insurance firm known as The Bert Insurance Group, based in Erie, Pa.

FNB United (FNBN) in Asheboro, N.C., narrowed its loss in the third quarter as it continued to unload problem assets.

First State Community Bank in Farmington, Mo., which has done several M&A deals in recent years, benefits again as B of A and smaller banks look to streamline their operations.

Willing sellers have pretty much replaced failed banks among targets with less than $1 billion of assets. Volume has perked up in other size classes simultaneously.

In a court filing this week, the Department of Justice rejected a Texas bank's claim that the Dodd-Frank law, and the CFPB in particular, were unconstitutional and harmful to financial institutions.

Community banks in energy-rich North Dakota are having to get regulators' approval to buy houses for their employees, who can no longer afford to live there.

Target, the nationwide merchandiser, my lead a Christmas season rush toward alternatives to bank-run payment systems.

Forget directing downsized staffs to sell based on a particular person's share of wallet. Today's customers can tell the difference between brands that push products and brands that are genuinely trying to solve their problems.

A bill that would exempt homeowners from having to pay taxes on principal reductions and other forms of debt cancellation will expire at the end of the year if Congress doesn't pass an extension.