A banker who successfully raised more than $400 million in the equity markets talks about how to get it done.

Example of how four private equity firms successfully bid on a failed bank and why it's important to the industry.

Robert Fleetwood, a partner in Chicago-based law firm Barack Ferrazzano, discusses the increasing importance of audit committees understanding capital issues and the one thing all audit committee members should do.

The chairman of First Oklahoma Bank writes about how his bank builds on the social capital of its investors.

Increasing demands for capital and the trickle down impact of the Dodd-Frank Act are topics for the upcoming Bank Audit Committee Conference in June.

Nichole Jordan, Grant Thornton’s national banking and securities industry leader, offers some insights on the new compliance burden.

Fred Cannon and Melissa Roberts of Keefe, Bruyette and Woods spend a lot of time dissecting the markets to understand financial stocks. Here, they give their views on how capital raises have affected the long-term performance of bank stocks, and which banks will do best when interest rates rise.

Some banks have gone to great lengths to prepare for the future. Others haven’t begun to think about it. Here are key questions to ask your management team about your strategic plan.

Many more banks and thrifts are finding themselves subject to new compensation restrictions when they fall into the “troubled” category.