Royal Bank of Canada is in "advanced talks" to buy out Dexia from its partnership in RBC Dexia Investor Services as the European bank seeks to shed assets, The Globe and Mail reported Tuesday, citing comments by Luxembourg's finance minister at a press conference late Monday.

Banco Popular Espanol SA, the second-best-performing Spanish bank stock this year, has offered to buy Banco Pastor SA.

Two failures late Friday - one in Minnesota and one in Missouri = cost the Deposit Insurance Fund nearly $190 million.

Chaotic stock markets are complicating bank deals like Brookline's planned purchase of Bancorp Rhode Island. Brookline extended for the second time the deadline for the seller's shareholders to decide how they will be paid.

HSBC has appointed Irene Dorner, American Banker magazine's fourth most-powerful woman in banking, president and chief executive of HSBC USA.

Former Bank of America Corp. executive Sallie Krawcheck will receive $6 million after leaving the bank following a management reshuffle last month.

Ambassador Financial Group Inc. of Allentown, Pa., has bought Danielson Associates LLC of Bethesda, Md.

HSBC Holdings PLC said Friday that Niall Booker is leaving his position as chief executive officer of the bank's North American operations, with two senior executives set to take overall responsibility for the U.S. and Canada.

Virgin Money, the banking division of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, Friday said it has appointed David Clementi as its new chairman to succeed the late Brian Pitman.

Barclays Capital will sell $1 billion in credit card asset-backed securities on Friday in the biggest such dollar-denominated deal from its Gracechurch bond issuing program since 2005, according to a person close the deal.

Reliant Bank in Brentwood, Tenn., is looking to raise up to $12 million to satisfy an agreement with regulators and to promote growth.

Capital rules, management challenges and other impediments will make it hard for large banks to grow over the next few decades.

Frustrated by a dearth of deals, a growing number of community banks are repurchasing their own shares and keeping them on hand for future opportunities.

Alliance Data Systems Corp. will take over the private-label credit card program for Pier 1 Imports Inc., the retailer said Thursday.

Capital rules, too big to fail, the European crisis and other wild cards are holding back deals, Jonathan Pruzan says. But a burst of mergers among midsize banks is possible.

A private-equity backed North Carolina holding company is acquiring the remaining shares of VantageSouth Bank that it does not already own and merging the bank with its other subsidiary.

Sterne Agee Group Inc. in Birmingham, Ala., said Wednesday that it will buy Anderson & Strudwick Inc. in Richmond, Va.

With M&A and the economy at a standstill, bank executives will have a hard time explaining how they can grow when they report third-quarter results.

Patriot Financial has money to invest, but before community bank executives pick up the phone to request a meeting they should know what the private-equity firm wants and doesn't want.

Two major tech players have pushed further into the data security space with acquisitions announced on Tuesday.