New credit card accounts at JPMorgan Chase have grown by double digits thanks partly to its embrace of borrowers with lower FICO scores, but it sought to reassure investors that credit quality has suffered only slightly.

Cambridge Bancorp in Massachusetts has recruited two finance executives to spearhead its new asset-based lending practice.

The $222 billion-asset company has not yet publicly stated the number of branches or markets to be affected, but it "would be closing and consolidating some branches in early December," BB&T spokesman David White on Monday.

Customers Bancorp in Wyomissing, Pa., is seeking to raise as much as $133.5 million through two avenues: a newly announced preferred stock offering and previously announced secondary sales of common stock.

Years of branch closures and job cuts are paying off for banks in the form of much-improved efficiency ratios. But with low interest rates still crimping profits, banks remain under pressure to continue reducing expenses.

Groups in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and elsewhere are stepping up efforts to create programs and conferences dedicated to younger bankers, including millennials.

Heightened risk management standards and the "three lines of defense" are supposed to help banks ward off scandal, but they failed miserably.

The alleged practices at the heart of Well Fargo's settlement were fueled by a short-term incentive system that is detached from broader goals.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has made good on its promise to keep key PrivateBancorp executives.

Admitting he should have moved more quickly to retool management during a decade of explosive growth, First NBC Bank Chairman and Chief Executive Ashton Ryan Jr. announced several changes designed to improve the New Orleans company's governance practices.

Huntingdon Valley Bank in Pennsylvania has revived its plan for a mutual conversion.

F.N.B. Corp. in Pittsburgh has recruited an executive from the recently sold FirstMerit Bank to spearhead its data-security efforts.

Glen Burnie Bancorp in Glen Burnie, Md., has decided it can do without a chief operating officer.

Old National Bancorp's more than 2,900 employees are treated to a variety of benefits, including financial help during personal emergencies. These benefits are seen as necessary steps to keep employees happy and reduce turnover.

Severn Bancorp in Annapolis, Md., has redeemed the last shares tied to the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

United Community Financial in Youngstown, Ohio, has agreed to buy Ohio Legacy Corp. in North Canton for $40.3 million, or $18 a share, in cash and stock.

Orrstown Financial Services in Shippensburg, Pa., has hired three former rivals from Metro Bank in Harrisburg: Adam Metz, Andrew Johnson and Doug Hummer.

Colony Bankcorp in Fitzgerald, Ga., has redeemed $3.6 million in perpetual preferred stock associated with the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

A rising number of banks are looking to become community development financial institutions, emboldened by low-cost capital and an exemption from the ability-to-repay rule.

Captex Bancshares, which has been created by George Lea and Michael Thomas Jr., has an agreement to buy the $165 million-asset parent of First National Bank of Trenton. Captex did not disclose how much it would pay for the acquisition, which is expected to close in the first quarter.