Colin Wilhelm

Paul Camp, a veteran of JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, has joined the digital-currency consumer finance company Circle Internet Financial as the startup's new chief financial officer.

TD Bank has settled with the state of Massachusetts after a data breach exposed the personal information of as many as 260,000 customers.

The Small Business Administration has introduced a new online credit scoring tool that can be used for most of its small business loans of $350,000 or less.

Activist investor Joseph Stilwell is threatening to fight yet another proxy battle against Harvard Illinois Bancorp.

fTLD Registry Services, an entity originally formed by The Financial Services Roundtable and the American Bankers Association to secure top-level domains for the banking and insurance industries, has contracted Symantec to provide verification for the newly created .bank and .insurance web domains.

Mobile payment share for Alipay, the payment affiliate of Alibaba, rose to 54% of payments in the first ten months of 2014 from 22% all last year.

Yesterday the Financial Services Roundtable, along with the Retail Industry Leaders Association, sent a letter to Congress encouraging legislation to allow for better cooperation in combating cyberthreats.

Orchard Platform,a company that provides analytics and data support for the online marketplace lending industry, has launched an online dating site of sorts to help investors find online lenders from which to buy loans.

Border Bancshares in Greenbush, Minn., has agreed to buy full ownership of First Advantage Bank in Coon Rapids, Minn.

Security National Bank in Sioux City, Iowa, said Thursday that it has agreed to purchase First Trust & Savings Bank in Moville, Iowa.

Bankrate Inc., an aggregator and publisher of rate data and news related to personal finance, has acquired Wallaby Financial Inc., a firm that provides credit card reward apps to consumers.

Mountain America Credit Union, in West Jordan, Utah, and Les Bois Credit Union, in Les Bois, Idaho, will merge effective Jan. 1. Mountain America will have 82 branches, making it the country's fifth largest CU branch network.

Veteran banker Simon Williams has rejoined the board of Lending Club on the eve of its high-profile initial public offering.

LendingTree already facilitated small-business loans through its online marketplace that funds consumer and other loans; its web portal opened Wednesday exclusively shops small-business loans to individual and institutional investors.

Dutch digital security company Gemalto and Chungwa Telecom, a Taiwanese firm, plan to commercially launch Near Field Communication-based mobile payment system for the telco's subscribers.

The U.S. operations of BMO Financial Group reported a 50% increase in its fiscal fourth quarter earnings, as credit costs decreased and revenue increased.

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman today announced the launch of a financial consumer education web app called AGScamHelp.

The Bancorp in Wilmington, Del., will have a new chief executive next year.

Seacoast Commerce Bank in San Diego has created a new holding company.

The American Bankers Association has added 12 banks to community banks indexed and listed with the Nasdaq stock exchange.