Retail & Commercial

Roy Barnes, a former Democratic governor of Georgia, and his brother have agreed to buy WestSide Bank in Hiram, Ga., for $3 million.

Legislative proposals to reform the housing finance system have failed to garner enough support, but a surprisingly simply reform idea is in plain sight: deeper private mortgage insurance coverage.

Attempts to sneak provisions into a final budget deal may be sold as helping community banks, but many of the measures really help big banks and undermine consumer protection.

Lake Sunapee Bank Group in Newport, N.H., has exited the Small Business Lending Fund.

The healthcare industry will be a target for data breaches next year because of the high value of medical records sold on the black market and the ongoing transition to electronic medical records, according to a new forecast.

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster proposed reforms Thursday to stop debt collection practices that he believes unfairly target minority and low-income residents.

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An estimated 1,300 former students of defunct for-profit Corinthian Colleges Inc. will have their federal student loans canceled by the U.S. Department of Education after it found students were tricked into taking on the loans, according to a government report released Thursday.

The $3.8 billion-asset First Busey said in a press release Thursday that it will pay $210.7 million, or $17.24 a share, in stock for the $1.5 billion-asset Pulaski.

Athens Bancshares in Tennessee has decided to delist its stock from Nasdaq and deregister with the Securities and Exchange Commission.