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Heartland Bancorp in Bloomington, Ill., has agreed to buy National Bancorp in Schaumburg, Ill., Crain's Chicago Business reported.

BB&T in Winston-Salem, N.C., plans to close 25 branches as part of its integration of National Penn Bancshares in Allentown, Pa.

An auto loan company that allegedly offered illegal loans to Oregon residents is being sued by the state's attorney general.

In this post-apocalyptic world of apps and bots, community banks lay in ruin, fintechs come and go, and megabanks dot the vast desert wasteland.

Promontory Settles; BB&T Snaps Up Another Bank

American Express is introducing one of the payments industry's first prepaid debit cards with cashback rewards in an age where the best rewards are typically reserved for the more lucrative credit card market.

When 650-store discount chain Fred's announced a data breach this month, it made an unwarranted leap of logic, one that has become all-too-common among breached retailers. That leap was deciding that an absence of evidence was proof that something didn’t happen.

MasterCard and First Tech Federal Credit Union are testing a system that might be the picture-perfect solution to the expected rise in e-commerce fraud following the October shift to EMV security in the U.S.

F.N.B. in Pittsburgh has shuffled its management ranks, after John Williams announced his retirement as bank president.