Alan Kline

Record deposit growth, improved expense management and strong revenue gains from mortgage banking boosted Umpqua Holdings' profits in the third quarter.

Comerica is gaining momentum after a rough start to 2016.

EverBank Financial’s first-quarter profits more than doubled from the same period last year as strong loan growth more than offset a sharp drop in income from servicing mortgages.

The demand for affordable rental properties has long outstripped the supply, with the gap widening as incomes have stagnated, homeownership rates have fallen and rents have soared in recent years. But now, banks are finding a profitable path to helping ease this severe national shortage.

First Horizon National Corp. is getting closer to putting its mortgage woes behind it.

M&T Bank remains comfortable with its decision to acquire Hudson City Bancorp even though a recent rise in mortgage rates could crimp Hudson City's profits.

John Stumpf believes the government-sponsored enterprises need to be retained in some form because the guarantee they provide is important to investors.

At first glance the Charlotte market seems like the wrong target for home construction.

Bank of America is said to be considering more sales of mortgage servicing rights following its announcement that it is selling $300 billion of servicing rights to two separate buyers.

Capital One's highest level of exposure is in New York, where it has $25.4 billion of loans outstanding.

Two former loan officers at Sterling Financial have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms and ordered to pay $53 million in restitution for their role in a multiyear fraud scheme.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. board member Thomas Hoenig has a bold suggestion for regulators crafting Basel III capital rules: start over.

If the government is bent on winding down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sooner rather than later, then it helps that some major lenders are committing to buy back soured loans from the government-sponsored enterprises all at once, rather than quarter by quarter.

EverBank Financial originated $2.7 billion of loans and leases in the second quarter, up 19% from the first quarter and 89% from the year ago.

First Horizon National in Memphis lost close to $125 million in the second quarter after it bought back scores of soured mortgage loans from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

A federal appeals court has denied Republic Bancorp's bid to recover $14 million it lost on securities investments because it believes the company should have been aware of the risks it was taking.

BB&T chief executive Kelly King urged his fellow bankers to vote against politicians who favor more regulation of the private sector and replace them with leaders who have more faith in the free markets.

Pennsylvania's House of Representatives this week voted unanimously to use all the funds received from the national mortgage settlement to help at-risk homeowners rather than use a portion of it to plug budget gaps.

ViewPoint Bank in Plano, Texas, is selling its home lending unit to a Dallas-based nonbank lender as part of its continued shift from a thrift to a commercial bank.

Marion Sandler, the co-chief executive at Golden West Financial in Oakland, Calif., for more than four decades, has died at the age of 81.