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Ameriana Bancorp in New Castle, Ind., which is being acquired by First Merchants in Muncie, Ind., lowered its second-quarter profit after it discovered the sale required a higher tax payment.

Jolina M. Sanchez faces trial for allegedly diverting over $300,000 in member deposits.

Bank of the West in San Francisco has sold its insurance subsidiary to an insurance brokerage.

Rejiggering the credit-scoring system won’t do much to expand credit access. Instead, banks and financial services companies should start thinking about new ways to evaluate the situational factors that influence borrowers’ reliability.

In Mexico, debt collection harassment complaints have more than tripled in the first half of this year compared to the same period a year ago.

The range of loan products offered by mortgage lenders and investors has been narrow since the housing crisis, but a few underserved niches are starting to make a comeback.

Activist Targeting Amex Has Mutual Fund Friends; SEC Reacts

Byron Thompson, chairman of Country Club Bank in Kansas City, Mo., has died.

A group of nonbank small-business lenders unveiled a self-regulatory pledge Thursday designed to bring greater clarity and consistency to their industry's pricing.

Fraudsters, anticipating the U.S. shift to EMV security at the point of sale, are busy looking for ways to hack into the e-commerce sites and consumer bank accounts that will be unaffected by the change in payment card security.