The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency lowered the $14 billion-asset thrift in Cleveland to “needs to improve” from "satisfactory."

First Foundation sold loans to Freddie Mac to free up space for higher-yielding credits. It then bought the securities that were formed to replace other, lower-yielding assets through an often overlooked program.

The changes mandated by the recent regulatory relief law would narrow the definition of "high-volatility commercial real estate" exposures that get a higher risk weight.

Casey Crawford, CEO of Movement Mortgage, bought First State Bank in Virginia last year. He has since injected more capital into the bank in an effort to reinvent it.

The Ohio company agreed to buy TransCounty Title Agency, which has five offices around Columbus.

A number of banks have stepped up efforts to lend to residential developers, though they are mindful of missteps made before the financial crisis.

The Michigan company had been operating under the supervisory agreement since 2010.

Steve Calk, the head of The Federal Savings Bank, was a "co-conspirator" in an effort to defraud the Chicago bank, a prosecutor said at the trial of former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort. Could Calk be charged with a crime?

Stephen Calk, the CEO of The Federal Savings Bank, expedited approval of a mortgage to the onetime Trump campaign chair in hopes of winning a job as Treasury secretary or housing secretary, a former bank employee testified Friday.

Five potential witnesses against Paul Manafort, including accountants and bankers, were identified Monday as a U.S. judge gave the former Trump campaign chairman's lawyers more time to review tens of thousands of documents handed over to them in recent weeks.