Regional banks are going to have to innovate and cut costs because revenue will remain tight and competition will get fiercer, Matthew Friend of Accenture Payment Services says.

BancTrust Financial Group (BTFG), a troubled Mobile, Ala., company that is looking for a buyer, has bought itself time to find one after reaching a deal to delay interest payments on a $20 million loan outstanding to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) may be based in Canada, but its U.S. operations have become increasingly important to the future of the company — and of its employees.

Toronto-Dominion plans in the coming years to find Ed Clark's successor from within. Colleen Johnston, its chief financial officer, seems to have a strong shot but downplayed speculation in an interview.

New York Community Bancorp Inc. (NYB) has agreed to take on $2.3 billion of deposits from Aurora Bank FSB, a former mortgage arm of Lehman Brothers that has been winding down.

Three weeks after completing an acquisition for one small Pennsylvania bank, S&T Bancorp in Indiana, Pa., has struck a deal for another.

Bank of America has sold collection agencies rights to sue over credit card debts that it has privately noted were potentially inaccurate or already repaid.

More than 20 banks in the state are still in the Treasury Department's program with limited options to get out. Selling could be the best solution, industry observers say.

Investment banker Jeff Weiss is resigning as Barclays Capital's (BCS) head of global financial institutions to pursue "entrepreneurial opportunities," according to an internal company memo.

Core Innovation Capital, an arm of a nonprofit aimed at helping the unbanked, will devote the $45 million it raised to investments in startup financial services companies. It already has put money into SavvyMoney and Plastyc.

The profile of a typical bank failure has taken on a new shape in 2012, with the combustion of construction loan portfolios giving way business loan blowups.

Regional banks will have a hard time growing revenue and meeting the demands of Dodd-Frank, but they have some distinct advantages over other banks, too, panelists on a recent American Banker roundtable said.

Bankers should take these red flags into account when assessing corporate credit and vendor risk. No. 1 on the list: when a company's chairman and CEO are the same individual.

StellarOne (STEL) in Charlottesville, Va., has started searching for a new president and chief executive after O.R. Barham Jr. notified its board that he would retire at the end of 2013.

Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) plans to open 50 new branches in New York City alone within four years, as the Canadian bank bets heavily on the U.S. to grow future earnings amid tight competition in its home market, its top executive said Thursday.

Barclays PLC has climbed to the top of the asset-backed securities market, thanks to an aggressive rebuilding effort and a surge in investor interest in bonds secured by automobile loans and unusual assets such as revenue from pizza franchises.

Gerard Cassidy, of RBC Capital Markets, on why PNC's acquisition of National City is hard to beat in the annals of bank M&A.

Participants in a recent American Banker roundtable say whether they would they pick a a community bank, a regional bank or a megabank if given a choice — and explain why.

Green Bancorp in Houston is bulking up in the Dallas area with a deal to buy Opportunity Bancshares in Richardson, Texas.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Webster FCU, fresh off two Boston-area mergers, announced this morning a deal for Filene FCU, one of the oldest credit unions in Boston that served employees of the famous retail chain once run by credit union pioneer Edward Filene.