Retail & Commercial

Wyndham Hotels and Resorts agreed Wednesday to settle FTC charges that the company’s security practices unfairly exposed the payment card information of hundreds of thousands of consumers to hackers in three separate data breaches.

Bank of the Ozarks in Little Rock, Ark., which has made 15 bank deals since 2010, has raised $110 million in an offering of its common stock.

Cardinal Bankshares in Floyd, Va., has named a new chairman and made additional executive appointments ahead of its merger with Grayson Bankshares in Independence, Va.

Affluent customers deserve special attention, but banks have to think outside of the box to improve loyalty and customer satisfaction with this important customer segment.

Univest Corp. of Pennsylvania in Souderton has agreed to buy Fox Chase Bancorp in Hatboro, Pa., for $244.3 million.

TransUnion predicts that the consumer lending market will have fully recovered by the end of next year from both the mortgage crisis and the recession that concluded more than six years ago.

Washington Federal is the latest bank to partner with a tech company in an effort to streamline online loan applications.

A coalition of consumer groups wants the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to investigate what it calls T-Mobile’s misleading advertisements and abusive debt collection practices.

Eagle Bancorp in Bethesda, Md., has added equipment leasing to its lineup of commercial banking products.

Enterprise Financial Services in Clayton, Mo., has reached an agreement to end loss-share agreements tied to the four failed banks it acquired during the financial crisis.