Bank channel

Big banks increasingly want branch workers to act like salespeople—but they're not quite ready to pay them for the extra hustle it takes to close a deal.

Dan Coughlin, chairman and CEO of Howe Barnes, will join Raymond James holding two high-level positions.

Bank acquisition activity is widely expected to pick up in 2011, but some parts of the country might be more active than others.

UBS will pay $2.2 million to individual investors in the largest settlement to date related to Lehman Brothers-associated products it once sold.

The state’s attorney general and the bank resolve allegations about securities sold to the local government investment pool.

Banks are again are looking at retail stores for inspiration — this time for customer relationship cues — but are running into an old problem: the models don't always translate.

Deciding which financial firms beyond banks are systemically important is one of the biggest decisions still to be made by regulators under the Dodd-Frank Act.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. announced three shared-equity deals Tuesday for a total of $620 million in failed-bank assets.

Toronto-Dominion, which controls a 1,250-branch retail bank on the East Coast of the U.S., said the deal will create one of the five-largest bank-owned auto lenders in North America.

If you want to know why the ABA blames the ICBA for undercutting the industry's lobbying on regulatory reform legislation, you have to start in Nebraska.

It was another busy — and costly — night for regulators in the Southeast. Of the nation's six failures Friday — bringing the year's total to 157 — three were in Georgia and one was in ...

An unexpected development like Friday's news — the takeover of one of the 50 biggest banks in the U.S. — may become increasingly common in 2011, experts say.

The Financial Services Authority has fined a former executive from Toronto Dominion Bank $1.2 million for intentionally mispricing trading positions in credit derivatives to cover his losses and banned him from working in the financial services industry.

Citigroup is touting all the bells and whistles of its newest outlet, but CEO Vikram Pandit had it right when he said that "ultimately, what makes for a smart bank is smart bankers."

Community banks’ investment programs booked a modest improvement in the third quarter.

Right or wrong, rumors of a Florida expansion by PNC touched a nerve with investors who are eager for straggling banks like Regions and BankAtlantic to get back on course.

Outgoing House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank sharply criticized incoming chairman Rep. Spencer Bachus on Wednesday, ridiculing the Alabama Republican for reportedly saying "Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks."

Most billion-dollar community banks have skirted the surge of traditional mergers and acquisitions that has engulfed their smaller peers — until now.

Large banks won't know until the middle of next year what — if any — extra tax they'll face for being deemed "too big to fail."

On the same day it proposed new capital requirements for all institutions, the FDIC's board of directors approved a 2011 agency budget of $3.96B, a 0.7% drop from the previous year.