Consumer bankers are reluctant to start charging customers new fees for existing products. But Capital One's Jonathan Witter pointed to the flexibility banks offers in pricing business-banking products as an example of how they could generate more fee revenue on the consumer side.

Heritage Financial is paying 1.5 times tangible book value for Valley Community, but the markets welcomed the deal because Heritage expects to slash the seller's expenses as much as 50% because of market overlaps.

HSBC agreed to sell its Canadian store card unit to Toronto-Dominion Bank as it closes its consumer-finance business in the country.

U.S. Bancorp (USB) has agreed to purchase Deutsche Bank's (DB) municipal bond trustee business.

A breakdown of M&A announcements in the financial services industry for the week ended March 16.

Starbuck Bancshares has sweetened the consideration it will pay for PremierWest Bancorp (PRWT) in Medford, Ore.

Landmark Credit Union may buy Hartford Savings Bank in Wisconsin, the National Credit Union Administration board decided Thursday.

The Fed's rejection of BB&T's capital plan likely bars the serial acquirer from big acquisitions for several months, but it might be able to pull off a small one.

The husband and wife who lead Southern National Bancorp of Virginia (SONA) want to make one more acquisition before they try to sell their bank and retire.

Liberty Bank's deal for Southern Connecticut Bancorp could signal an M&A trend — mutual thrifts with lots of capital acquiring small, publicly traded banks.

PremierWest Bancorp (PRWT) in Medford, Ore., has granted itself more time to persuade shareholders to approve a takeover by Starbuck Bancshares.

The anger against the country's biggest banks is ready to boil over, Harris Simmons, the chairman and chief executive of Zions Bancorp., warned Wednesday.

State Bank Financial (STBZ) in Atlanta has lowered its 2012 earnings to address an accounting error in tied to loans it obtained from failed-bank deals.

Citigroup can omit from its annual meeting a question for shareholders that would require the lender to explore breaking up, the Securities and Exchange Commission said.

Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust in Coral Gables, Fla., is in talks with several potential buyers, the South Florida Business Journal reported in its online edition Wednesday.

Why are professional women still struggling to 'have it all'? Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Princeton professor and former State Department official who famously asked that question last summer, tried to help HSBC answer it on Friday.

The midsize New York mortgage lender and the West Coast bank created to house the IndyMac assets are worlds apart in many ways, but their rumored deal is strange enough to work, experts say.

ST Financial Group in College Station, Texas, plans to buy a small bank near Dallas. The parent company of Spirit of Texas Bank has agreed to purchase Peoples Bank in Colleyville, which has $72 million in assets and two branches.

Bank of Astoria in Oregon plans to convert all of its branches to the Columbia Bank brand, nine years after the two lenders merged.

Ocwen Financial has added Wilbur Ross Jr. to its board.