Retail & Commercial

Bank CEOs have recently raised red flags about the president's protectionist rhetoric, including his proposals to tax imports from China and Mexico. The concerns have arisen as import-export financing is already facing headwinds.

Usama Ashraf, the marketplace lender's new chief financial officer, will oversee finance activities and its capital markets function.

Credit unions are finding more and more inventive ways to do the right thing for the communities they serve.

The Louisiana company will enter several markets around Dallas with the $21 million deal

The company continued to reduce its exposure to energy loans during the fourth quarter.

Spark ATM expects the deal will help expand services offered to local banks and retailers in South Africa and other markets in the region.

The acquisition should allow the San Francisco-based online lender SoFi to fulfill a long-standing goal: offering a deposit account to its young, upwardly mobile customers.

So-called branch experts may recommend aggressive sales techniques, but the most successful sales teams talk the least about the bank’s products and services.

Gary Armstrong, former Richmond, Va., market president for Park Sterling, will have a similar role at Bay Banks.

The newly installed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission voted against 2015 rules that largely rejected the banking industry's entreaties.