A client of ours has recently purchased large portfolios of loans from failed banks.  Including some of the well-publicized FDIC auctions of leftover commercial real estate loans from now-closed banks ...

The demise of the nine banks whose doors were slammed shut by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) provides a vital lesson for the financial services industry.  Those banks could ...

When President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union speech Tuesday that big banks are "required to write out a living will," it was the...

What's the difference between a piggy bank and a money-market fund? Not much. Neither is insured, and the returns are basically the same: nothing...

Regulators have closed banks in Tennessee and Florida, lifting to five the number of U.S. bank failures this year following 92 closures in 2011.....

BankEast was closed Friday by the Tennessee Department of Financial Institutions.. . The ten BankEast branches will reopen Monday as branches of...

Columbia Banking (NASDAQ: COLB) was upgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a "neutral" rating to an "outperform" rating in a report issued on...

Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. ("Company") (Nasdaq:HOME), the parent company of Home Federal Bank ("Bank"), today announced results for the quarter...

A former North Georgia bank CEO has consented to being barred from the industry for undisclosed allegations of wrongdoing, federal regulators...

US Bancorp (NYSE: USB) was upgraded by investment analysts at Atlantic Equities from an "underweight" rating to a "neutral" rating in a note issued...

Brookline Bancorp (NASDAQ: BRKL) was downgraded by research analysts at Sterne Agee from a "buy" rating to a "neutral" rating in a report issued on...

Enterprise Financial Services (NASDAQ: EFSC) was downgraded by Zacks Investment Research from an "outperform" rating to a "neutral" rating in a...