Banking News

Bank of America veteran Steve Boland has been named the new home-loans origination executive for the Charlotte-based bank, filling a newly created position overseeing sales and fulfillment nationwide.

JPMorgan Chase & Co has begun to provide the debt forgiveness and other help to struggling homeowners under last year's $13 billion accord with federal and state authorities, though it has only turned over a handful of details, a monitor of the deal said in a report released on Tuesday.

Investors are buying metals from zinc to aluminum at the fastest pace since 2009, betting demand gains will tighten supply, just as Citigroup Inc. and Macquarie Group Ltd. predict this year's rallies will end.

Arrow Financial Corporation, the holding company for Saratoga National Bank and Trust Company and Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Company, reported a net income of $5.52 million, a 6.1 percent increase from the second quarter of 2013.

Northwest Bancshares Inc., a community bank serving the Pittsburgh region, Monday reported second-quarter net income of $12.7 million, or 14 cents per share.

The probe by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will be the subject of a daylong hearing on Tuesday and also spells more trouble for the embattled Internal Revenue Service.

If unemployment benefits were cut off earlier in 2013, the long-term unemployed would have been more likely to be re-employed, according to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis .

SunTrust Banks Inc. The Atlanta-based banking company reported its second quarter profit was up 6 percent.

BB&T booked net income of $425 million in the second quarter, down from $547 million a year earlier in part due to $88 million worth of mortgage and tax-related reserve adjustments.

M&T Bank Corp.'s plan to buy Hudson City Bancorp has become the banking industry's largest and longest-pending acquisition.

In some ways, the "say on pay" requirement included in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act of 2010 seems to be a routine exercise in rubberstamping.

JAKE DANNA STEVENS / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Heroin, a gun and packaging material seized during an investigation by detectives with the Lackawanna County district attorney's office in Scranton on June 26. Packets of heroin seized by detectives with the Lackawanna County District Attorney's Office in Scranton on Thursday, June 26, 2014.

Same-store debit and credit card sales during the second quarter rose 5.03 percent from the same quarter in 2013, according to First Hawaiian Bank's quarterly business activity report.

The Times reports the bank profiled Gary and nine other Midwestern cities that also suffered major manufacturing job losses in recent decades as part of its Industrial Cities Initiative.

First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Charleston is formed as the holding company in 1983.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned on Friday that low inflation could damage growth in Europe and urged the European Central Bank to maintain a flexible policy.

It was bad enough when the Legislature didn't pass bills earlier this year to rein in some of the predatory practices of payday lenders in our state.

A long hoped for improvement in the economy appears to be manifesting itself in second-quarter U.S. earnings, but the next two weeks could be the real test.

When it comes to companies we dread dealing with, we all know who they are. Let's put it this way, would you rather go to the Apple Genius Bar to fix something with your iPhone or to the Bank of America teller to reverse a surprise interest charge? In collaboration with research survey group Zogby Analytics , we polled 2,500 adults about the ... (more)

Any capital shortfalls that the European Central Bank finds this fall at Greece's four big banks will be manageable, the head of the country's bank bailout fund told Sunday's Kathimerini newspaper in an interview.