Chris Cumming

Loan demand seems to be returning, but not fast enough for many bankers and their investors. Bankers discuss the various things holding back a return to blow-out quarters of loan growth.

A small California bank's deal to buy another rural lender could give it the scale it needs to knock heads with Wells Fargo and BofA, its execs say.

Small-business owners are generally satisfied with their access to funding and about one in five plans to apply for a loan in 2013, according to a new survey from Bank of America (BAC).

U.S. Bancorp has agreed to purchase Deutsche Bank's municipal bond trustee business, which has about $57 billion of assets under administration and 1,100 trust and agency contracts.

Bank holding companies saw a dip in wealth management income in the first three quarters of 2012, a new study says.