Retail & Commercial

With online retailers beginning to challenge the dominance of brick-and-mortar grocery stores, CRE loans to strip mails anchored by them look riskier.

While some tackle the problem by offering their own consolidation loans, Sallie Mae is developing products with extended terms that reduce borrowers' monthly payments in an effort to discourage borrowers from refinancing in the first place.

Ditching paper and digitizing tasks help community banks operate more efficiently and write more profitable commercial loans.

Federal regulators’ 2013 guidance on leveraged lending should have been treated as a rule under the Congressional Review Act – and is now eligible for Congress to repeal, the Government Accountability Office said Thursday.

The $36.3 billion-asset bank reported double-digit growth in C&I loans, commercial real estate loans and specialty loans to the private-equity, entertainment and energy industries in the third quarter.

The New York bank's total loans rose 8% to $31 billion from a mix of commercial real estate and specialty finance credits.

First Reliance in South Carolina, which recently announced its first bank acquisition, is angling to take advantage of disruption caused by bigger mergers in the Carolinas.

A judge who imposed a $45 million penalty on Bank of America Corp. over a foreclosure on a California couple still isn't ready to forget the case he described as a "Kafkaesque nightmare."

In many countries, customers bank for free, but the reality is the poor largely subsidize “free” banking services through overdrafts and consumer loan payments. This model is seriously flawed, but it is about to change.

Net income for the Oregon regional bank was $61.3 million, a slight decline from the same quarter last year. It earned 28 cents per share and fell short of analysts’ expectations,