The New York company, which is preparing to buy Astoria Financial, reported year-over-year increases in commercial-and-industrial and commercial real estate loans.

The Pittsburgh company, pleased with employee and client retention from its March purchase of Yadkin Financial, is looking to hire lenders from other institutions.

The Illinois company has bought two banks and a small mortgage firm in the past year, which helped improve its second-quarter results.

Genworth Financial for the second time has withdrawn and refiled its application with the federal government to approve its acquisition by China Oceanwide Holdings Group.

The Treasury Department will take a huge hit when Cecil Bancorp sells its bank, while 1st Mariner Bank in Baltimore will see its equity stake completely wiped out. Cecil opted for bankruptcy court when it was unable to resolve an impasse over its trust-preferred stock.

Home Point Financial Corp. sold its reverse mortgage lending business to Huron Valley Financial. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The company will also gain its first branches in New Mexico after it buys Peoples Inc.

The billionaire investor agreed to buy shares at a deep discount and provide a fresh credit line for the Canadian mortgage company, tapping a formula he used to prop up lenders from Goldman Sachs to Bank of America.

Casey Crawford, head of the rapidly growing Movement Mortgage, recently recapitalized First State Bank in Danville, Va., with his own money.

The parent of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services said it had acquired 1st Priority Mortgage Inc. and Nothnagle Home Securities, completing the last stage of its purchases of RealtyUSA and Nothnagle Realtors.

Aggressive restructuring moves and stock buybacks are giving CIT time to remold itself, but it will need to show core-banking growth to stave off calls for the company to sell itself.

Canada's big banks are pursuing wholesale banking, capital markets and select M&A opportunities across the border to hedge against a slowing mortgage market and other economic concerns on the home front.

The company also said it believes there are no regulatory obstacles that will derail its planned acquisition of Astoria Financial.

The Federal Reserve is asking Sterling to address deficiencies tied to its collection, verification and reporting of CRA data from 2014 to 2016.

Brent Beardall, who recently took the helm at Washington Federal, discusses having excess capital, myriad potential fintech partners and why he would tweak — not repeal — Dodd-Frank.

The Columbus, Ga., company also announced late Monday that it is buying the credit card assets and brokered deposits of the retailer Cabela's and will then sell the card portfolio to Capital One.

Opes Advisors has 39 locations in California, Oregon and Washington. The firm generated $3 billion in mortgages last year.

Low scores make it harder for banks to get regulatory OKs to expand, but Wells is in retrenchment mode anyway.

The private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners will acquire D+H in a deal valued at $3.57 billion.

The New York bank will double in size while gaining greater access to Long Island and low-cost deposits that should come in handy as interest rates rise.