Brian Browdie

Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI) in Dallas has announced its CEO succession plan. Keith Cargill, 60, will become president and chief executive of the $10 billion-asset company when current chief George Jones, 69, retires at yearend.

Eastern Virginia Bankshares (EVBS) in Tappahannock has extended the deadline for a pending rights offering.

Rototype International has unveiled a system that can dispense cashier's checks on demand.

C&F Financial (CFFI) has agreed to acquire Central Virginia Bankshares. Both are in the Richmond, Va., area.

Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati has named a veteran banker to serve as its chief risk and credit officer.

West Bancorp. (WTBA) in Des Moines, Iowa, is taking advantage of low interest rates to buy back a chunk of its stock.

Huntington Bancshares (HBAN) has hired Jeff Sturm, a financial technology veteran most recently with Fiserv, to find ways to improve customer service and contain costs.

Wells Fargo (WFC) has been acquitted by a jury of giving kickbacks to a real estate firm in exchange for mortgage business.

Capital One Financial (COF) is on a mission to become one of the nation's top players in equipment-financing as has roughly doubled the size the division over the last two months.

Fifty-six percent of U.S. adults own a smartphone of some type — up from 35% of adults two years ago, the Pew Research Center said in a report released Wednesday.

Jean Smith, a local kid who grew up to run branches in the New York borough for JPMorgan Chase, has spent her retirement years teaching nonprofit BronxWorks how to tap private-sector funding.

An analysis of Microsoft's takedown of a cyber fraud ring that stole hundreds of millions of dollars from bank accounts brings to light the growing sophistication of malware and keylogger makers, who mostly manage to stay a step ahead of antivirus software designers and corporate security officers.

Microsoft (MSFT) has teamed with federal law enforcement to disrupt the technology supporting a cybercrime ring that has drained funds from accounts at some of the nation's biggest banks.

The Houston company said Monday it has purchased the assets of Merrimak ATM Group of Rohnert Park, Calif. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Citigroup has settled a lawsuit that charged the company with deceiving institutional investors about its exposure to subprime loans in the lead-up to the mortgage meltdown.

Delinquencies on commercial mortgages that back securities inched up in May as resolutions fell.

Digital security company nProtect has introduced software that aims to prevent online banking fraud by detecting anomalous activity.

Farmers National Banc in Canfield, Ohio is buying an employee-benefits consultant.

The U.S. and China will hold high-level talks on how to set guidelines for conduct in cyberspace, The New York Times is reporting.

Could cyberattacks bring down the U.S. financial network? Chuck Hagel thinks it's possible. Shielding the U.S. against the destructive potential of digital threats is among the top priorities for the nation, the Defense Secretary said.