The developer chosen in 2006 to redevelop a large chunk of the Poppleton neighborhood is suing the city of Baltimore, saying officials have misstated the project’s status, stymied the group’s financing efforts and now seek to boot it from the ...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. bank earnings rose in the first three months of the year to the highest level in nearly five years and the number of troubled banks fell for the fourth straight quarter. The mostly positive first-quarter earnings released ...

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When Andrew F. Campbell joined Ober|Kaler’s Financial Institutions Group in Baltimore as Counsel in December, it wasn’t the first time he’d gone to work for a private law firm. This time, though, he has years of valuable experience as an ...

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NEW YORK — A steadier mortgage business, higher commercial lending and an increase in deposits lifted Wells Fargo & Co.’s fourth-quarter profit by 20 percent. The San Francisco-based bank reported Tuesday that the amount of mortgages it wrote in the ...

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Bank of America Corp. is scrapping its plan to charge a $5 monthly fee for making debit card purchases after an uproar and threatened exodus by customers. The about-face comes as customers petitioned the bank, and mobilized to close their ...

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Bank of America’s plan to shrink its workforce by 10 percent over the next few years will almost certainly have significant effect on Maryland, given the bank’s presence and stature in the state, analysts said. Bank of America Corp., the ...

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The next time you swipe your credit card at check-out, consider this: It’s a ritual the rest of the world deems outdated and unsafe. The United States is the only developed country still hanging on to credit and debit cards ...

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WASHINGTON — Wells Fargo & Co. has agreed to pay $85 million to settle civil charges that it falsified loan documents and pushed borrowers toward subprime mortgages with higher interest rates during the housing boom. The fine is the largest ...

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NEW YORK — The nation’s largest mortgage lender is turning to cost-cutting as the economy sputters and the grinding housing slump means waning profits from new mortgages. Wells Fargo & Co. on Tuesday posted a 30 percent leap in second-quarter ...

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