A U.S. district court has stopped a group of marketers in California and Nevada from conducting business using "free" trial offers and tricking consumers into disclosing their credit and debit card information.

Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney is facing scrutiny on the management of Britain's payments system after the biggest disruption in seven years delayed bank transfers and house purchases.

Arrow Financial in Glens Falls, N.Y. reported an increase in quarterly profit because of increased lending.

Riverview Bancorp in Vancouver, Wash., is facing pressure from a large investor to sell itself.

Bank of Marin Bancorp in Novato, Calif., reported a significant increase in quarterly profit following an acquisition and organic growth.

Regulators are finally ready to unveil a final risk retention rule, but whether the new regulation provides enough certainty to jumpstart the securitization market is an open question.

Consumer litigation against debt collectors jumped in September after an August slowdown.

Community Financial in Waldorf, Md., filed a shelf registration that will allow it to raise up to $75 million over the next three years.

John Ikard, a Colorado bank CEO and incoming chairman of the American Bankers Association, hopes to score a few legislative victories on behalf of bankers, who he says have spent years on the defensive.

New York regulator Benjamin Lawsky may use the cybersecurity rules he's proposed for virtual-currency companies as a model for traditional banks. That would subject the financial institutions his agency supervises to the most stringent data-security rules anywhere.

WASHINGTON — NBRS FInancial in Rising Sun, Md., has become the second institution in the state to fail this year.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. told an Ohio bank early last year that doing business with payday lenders is generally unacceptable, according to a letter released Friday by House Republicans.

René Jones, CFO of the Buffalo, N.Y., bank, artfully dodged more than a dozen versions of the same question from analysts: when, and if, is M&T's deal to buy Hudson City Bancorp going to get done?

HCBF Holding in Fort Pierce, Fla., has agreed to acquire First America Holding in Bradenton, Fla.

Changes to representation and warranty contract are also expected to be announced MBA annual convention.

A wide swath of banks, from Fifth Third to SunTrust to Huntington, report big increases in refinance applications in the past few days as mortgage rates have dipped. Will it last?

The credit-card issuer expects its loss rates to rise significantly in 2015, in contrast with rivals that still regard the credit environment as benign.

Astoria Financial in Lake Success, N.Y., set out a few years ago to become more commercially focused by going after more multifamily and commercial real estate loans. The goal is for such loans to make up 50% and at the end of the third quarter they were 38%.

Republic Bancorp in Louisville, Ky., reported higher third-quarter profits, driven by a combination of organic loan growth and asset quality improvements.

Pinnacle Bancorp in Central City, Neb., has agreed to buy Home State Bank in Louisville, Neb.