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HomeTrust Bancshares in Asheville, N.C., has agreed to buy United Financial of North Carolina, a municipal lease finance company based in Fletcher, N.C.

Orrstown Financial Services in Shippensburg, Pa., has acquired Wheatland Advisors in Lancaster, Pa.

A Citigroup currency trader in Tokyo who sued the U.S. bank after it fired him for allegedly trying to manipulate foreign-exchange rates has settled the case.

Receiving Wide Coverage ...Positioning: Gary Cohn's likely departure from Goldman Sachs to join the Trump administration as director of the National Economic Council "sets off a new round of C-suite jockeying at Goldman, where the decade-long tenure of Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein has created a younger generation of executives eager to advance," the Wall Street Journal reports. Cohn's dual roles of president and chief operating officer are likely be split among two executives, possibly investment-banking co-chief David Solomon and CFO Harvey Schwartz.

Crooks are getting more clever when hacking e-commerce sites to hide illegal activity, requiring banks and processors to developer a broader picture of merchants and payment activity.

Mobile payment initiatives have largely failed because they focus on changing transactions instead of changing the way consumers and merchants engage with each other, according to Carta Worldwide, which touts new tokens as a way to reverse that.

Prudential Financial was accused of covering up fraudulent sales of life insurance policies through Wells Fargo to low-income customers with Hispanic last names.

Federal banking regulators are dismissing claims that they are pressuring banks to cut ties with payday lenders, arguing that the lenders' recent request for a court order against the agencies rests on erroneous speculation and bad legal arguments.

After news of possible reductions in withdrawl limits, casino stocks suffered steep losses.

The collaboration will help consumers use WorldRemit funds to accounts in six new markets in Africa.