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The parent of State Bank in New Hampton has agreed to buy the holding company for Peoples Trust & Savings Bank.

The uplifting story of another Virginia statue — this one honoring the first black female to charter a bank — is well-timed. Plus, JPMorgan Chase's O'Connor on laboring over Libor and U.S. Bank's Lawler on getting people to do the right thing.

Square unveiled its first physical store on Thursday to offer hands-on support for merchants using its technology and showcase some of their wares.

Big banks north of the border are rapidly expanding their U.S. wealth divisions, competing with their stateside peers for higher-income clientele.

The Swiss bank got involved in microfinance in a counterintuitive way: at the behest of its wealthiest clients. Technology has made lending in small rural villages more efficient and profitable.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is telling agencies and companies that collect or store data to change the way they have been protecting their networks — and its guidance is likely to soon spill over to financial services and payments.

Bank Mutual was still in talks to buy a bank roughly its own size when it began exploring a sale. The move allowed Bank Mutual to quickly find a buyer after its planned acquisition fell through.

Beverly Anderson, who had held the job on an interim basis since March, leads a unit that has been roiled by the bank's unauthorized-accounts scandal.

The agency's statement comes as Tropical Storm Harvey gets closer to the Texas shore.

A woman who formerly worked for a Southern California credit union and her "online boyfriend" have been indicted by a federal grand jury of defrauding multiple banks to the tune of $2.6 million.