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The activist investor is irate that the company's board will not meet to discuss concerns it has over executive compensation and corporate governance.

JPMorgan Chase on Tuesday named Todd Combs, a protégé of and possible successor to Warren Buffett, to its board of directors.

Contrary to expectations about growing mortgage lending volumes, current industry trends suggest a gradual reduction in capacity for both lending and servicing that should alarm policymakers.

Metropolitan Commercial Bank in New York has a new chief financial officer.

The board of directors at Lake Charles, La.-based Southwest Louisiana Credit Union has selected Ronaldo Hardy as the credit union’s next president and chief executive officer, effective October 3.

The $4.9 billion-asset company said in a regulatory filing Friday that its president and CEO, Ashton Ryan Jr., had relinquished the chairmanship to Shivan Govindan, its vice chairman since 2013.

MUFG Union Bank has named a head of private wealth management for its northern California and Pacific Northwest region.

The Bancorp is keeping its cards close to its vest when it comes to job cuts it made last week. The move is leaving analysts guessing as to exactly how many people — and what types of positions — were cut.

The subprime auto lender Santander Consumer Holdings USA has made two key leadership moves as it faces ongoing accounting problems.

Charitable donations, Instagram contests and candy-filled fire hydrants are all part of the latest round of credit union community news.

A former NFL quarterback is set to become next chairman of MidSouth Bancorp in Lafayette, La.

The revelations at Wells Fargo are reminder to directors that when a bank's performance is too good to be true, it likely is.

Therapy for children, raising funds to cure cancer and anniversary celebrations are just a few of the latest ways CUs are giving back to the communities they serve.

Carolina Premier Bank in Charlotte, N.C., has hired Don Jackson from Community One Bank in Asheboro, N.C., as director of Small Business Administration lending, a new position at the bank.

The embattled bank is under pressure to claw back bonus pay from executives. Its decision figures to have ripple effects throughout the industry.

Andy Cecere is widely viewed as the successor to Richard Davis as chief of the Minneapolis bank — Davis has repeatedly backed him in public forums — but Cecere may get several years to prepare for the daunting growth challenges facing banking's next generation of leaders.

Speaking at an investor event Thursday, U.S. Bancorp Chief Executive Richard Davis said he has no plans to court Wells Fargo customers who might be put off by the recent account-related scandal at their bank.

F.N.B. Corp. in Pittsburgh has selected more executives from Yadkin Financial in Raleigh, N.C., to take on leadership roles for its new markets in the Carolinas.

The scorcher at Wells is giving some community bankers an opening to differentiate themselves from larger institutions that seem fee-dependent or "too big to manage."

Washington Federal in Seattle has named Erin Lantz, a general manager of mortgages at Zillow Group, to its board. Lantz, 37, worked at Bank of America from April 2003 to 2010, eventually serving as senior vice president of program management.