Retail & Commercial

Following the regulatory orders against Wells Fargo and the resignation of its CEO, stockholders are likely to ask whether the board has responsibility and even liability for the bank's compliance failures.

The former chief executive of NOVA Bank in Berwyn, Pa., will serve more than two years in a federal prison for his role in a fraud scheme involving the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Refusing to let innovators experiment in a permissive environment keeps regulators in the dark, and ultimately, prevents progress in financial services.

A group of online consumer loans that were packaged into bonds is going bad faster than lenders and bond underwriters had expected, the latest sign that some startups that aimed to revolutionize the banking industry underestimated the risk they were taking.

Little Bank in Kinston, N.C., has agreed to buy its first bank. It will pay $30.7 million, or $11.94 a share, for the $298 million-asset Union Banc in Oxford, N.C.

The founder of Sterling Bancshares in Poplar Bluff, Mo., has resigned a month after he being placed on administrative leave.

Betting the farm on record crop, livestock and dairy prices has turned into a losing investment for an expanding share of America's agricultural heartland. The level of debt to income is the highest in three decades, and growers are increasingly unable to make loan payments.

Aaron Vermut has resigned as chief executive of Prosper Marketplace, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Vermut stepped down last week but will remain a director at the San Francisco-based online lender, according to the report, which cites unnamed sources.

KeyCorp integrated First Niagara just a couple of months after the deal closed. CIO Amy Brady says coordination between business leaders and the tech team paved the way.

Summit State Bank in Santa Rosa, Calif., has hired a rival’s chief credit officer.