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Huntington said Monday that Belinda Sherman has been promoted to president of the Huntington Investment Company, a wholly owned subsidiary that sells investment and insurance products.

Daniel Cantara 3rd, an 11-year veteran of First Niagara, will oversee all parts of the Buffalo, N.Y., bank that deal directly with customers.

Community Trust Financial of Ruston, La., has received a $45 million investment from Pine Brook, a New York private-equity firm, the two firms announced Monday.

Sterling Financial (STSA) in Spokane, Wash., will buy three branches around Seattle from a unit of Boston Private Financial (BPFH).

Security firm says it has vetted the threat of a Russian hacking scheme and found it to be real.

Bank of America has escalated a longstanding dispute with MBIA over securities backed by residential mortgages.

Shea to succeed Kurt Woetzel, who will run a global collateral services unit.

The nation's largest custody bank said Friday that it has named Karen Peetz president amid a series of executive appointments that take effect Jan. 1.

Two targets of the al Qassam Cyber Fighters Group are seeing unusual traffic on their websites.

MetLife, the global life insurer, said Wednesday that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has conditionally approved the company's deal to sell $6.5 billion in deposits from MetLife Bank to GE Capital Retail Bank (GE), GE's consumer-lending arm.

Bank of America (BAC) and insurer MBIA (MBI) may be nearing a resolution of their longstanding squabble over securities backed by residential mortgages.

Small-business owners are likely to pull back on purchases of computers, machinery and other long-term investments in 2013, according to a survey released Thursday by Wells Fargo (WFC) and Gallup.

The Washington Business Hall of Fame recently inducted Eagle Bancorp CEO Ron Paul, and the World Affairs Council of San Antonio will fete Cullen/Frost CEO Dick Evans as its citizen of the year for 2013.

Bank notes printed with special ink change their appearance in the presence of a cell phone's magnetic field.

Visa announced Wednesday that John Partridge will retire as the company's president at the end of March.

Its website apparently hit with a distributed denial of service attack, the bank has taken to Twitter and Facebook to keep customers informed.

The $352 billion-asset company said late Tuesday it has named John Elmore and Kent Stone to succeed Richard Hartnack, vice chairman of consumer and small business banking, when Hartnack retires in March.

The Federal Reserve Board has terminated enforcement actions against Community Bankers Trust (BTC) in Glen Allen, Va., and Northwestern Bank in Chippewa Falls, Wis.

The chief executives of two New York banks will serve on a panel charged with recommending changes to the state's tax code.

Heritage Bank of Commerce in San Jose, Calif., has lured a veteran small-business banker.