Americas

The new owners of First Mariner Bank believe the Baltimore bank could return to profitability in the first quarter.

ST. LOUIS — A man wearing a ski mask used a sledgehammer to break into a South City credit union early Tuesday morning, according to police.

Safeway FCU and Spokane City CU have selected D+H Corp. in Lake Mary, Fla., as their provider of outsourced, online banking services.

CVB Financial in Ontario, Calif., will have a new chairman starting Jan. 1.

MERRIT ISLAND, Fla. — Kennedy Space Center Federal Credit Union was flying high.

Banc of California has completed its acquisition of the Southern California branch network of Popular Community Bank.

First Niagara Financial Group raised to $1.1 billion the amount of the goodwill impairment charge it recorded in the third quarter, as the Buffalo, N.Y., company cuts the value of assets acquired since 2009.

Harvard Illinois Bancorp in Harvard, Ill., which recently disclosed that it had been exposed to a fraud scheme involving certain investments, has hired an investment bank to help it "evaluate strategic alternatives."

Central Bancshares in Muscatine, Iowa, has agreed to buy Buffalo Prairie State Bank in Buffalo Prairie, Ill.

Former President Bill Clinton addressed a crowd of thousands of Southern California kids Sunday at the largest-ever gathering for financial literacy education.