Bank channel

Inflows to long-term investments and favorable markets offset outflows from temporary holdings.

Investors hoping that dividend increases expected at large banks will trickle down to community banks are probably out of luck.

With small-business credit still sluggish, policymakers and industry representatives spent much of a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. forum Thursday debating whether government could find a solution, or was itself part of the problem.

While many forecast that the use of cash will disappear in the United States, a new report from Aite Group says it is “far from vanishing.”

TD Bank announced Thursday a new high-yield savings account, which offers competitive interest rates as well as a rate increase for also having a TD Bank checking account.

Market watchers will dig deep into the results of two prime suspects that kick off reporting Friday — JPMorgan Chase & Co. and M&T Bank Corp. — for clues about which large banks are beneficiaries of a rebound in business lending indicated by federal data.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. board is scheduled to move ahead on new resolution powers and discuss executive compensation structures at a meeting Tuesday.

Midwest banks have long been enamored with growth in sunny locations, but Enterprise Financial is using government-backed deals with loss-sharing agreements as protection.

A group of House Financial Services Democrats are raising questions about whether taxpayers will be fully protected under the terms of a recent settlement over poorly underwritten loans held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

BMO Financial Group announced Tuesday that it has signed a definitive agreement to buy Hong Kong-based Lloyd George Management.

Less than a week after acquiring an Ohio insurer, Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA Inc. announced it bought JFK Consulting Group, LLC, an employee benefits brokerage and consulting firm in Overland Park, Kansas.

Advisors should heed how the bank is leveraging new technology to converse with customers online.

With mergers heating up, Kessel D. Stelling says "every bank has to earn their independence every day." His company, Synovus Financial, paid a steep price toward that end Monday.

As directors and officers of failed banks brace for FDIC lawsuits, an intense legal battle is developing over accessing files at their former institutions.

Fixed annuities sales were steady at $1.1 billion, whereas variable annuities gained $100 million from a month earlier ending November at $1.5 billion, according to data from Kehrer-LIMRA.

The deal, which was announced in October, was priced at $88.57 million inclusive of estimated net assets of the business of $21.75 million.

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday reiterated the importance of community banks to the economy and the need to ensure regulatory burdens faced by small banks are minimized.

Smartleaf will help manage more than 40,000 portfolios for America’s fifth largest bank, which becomes its largest provider

As more banks prepare to charge for basic products, a carrot-and-stick strategy with customers may work better than a more punitive approach.

MetLife Bank, a unit of the MetLife Inc., has catapulted from relative obscurity in banking to become the seventh-largest depository and a contender in mortgages.