Retail & Commercial

Seacoast Banking Corp. of Florida in Stuart has agreed to buy the Orlando, Fla., banking operations of BMO Harris Bank.

Westamerica Bancorp. will close its branch in Upper Lake, Calif., after a failed effort to find another financial institution to take over the branch.

Synchrony Financial has received regulatory approval for moves that will let the credit card lender cut ties with its longtime parent, General Electric.

U.S. Bancorp reported third-quarter profit that matched analysts’ estimates as expenses rose.

Citigroup boosted profit more than analysts estimated after a drop in legal costs helped it cut expenses faster than revenue fell.

CVB Financial in Ontario, Calif., has agreed to buy County Commerce Bank in Oxnard, Calif.

While GOP presidential candidates have focused on repealing or drastically revising the Dodd-Frank Act, Democrats clashed over banking reform Tuesday night during the party's first primary debate.

If you want to have a big impact within your bank and across the banking industry, you need to get familiar with different parts of the business, have a wide variety of skills, and develop a network of people who like you. So even a lateral move can be helpful, says Wells Fargo's Pat Callahan. She offered this career advice as part of a speech she gave when accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award. (See Callahan's full speech here.)

Forget the San Francisco bank's pedestrian bottom line this quarter — the real things to focus on are its revenue growth and the reasons behind it.

Capital One Financial Corp. introduced a tap-to-pay mobile-payments service, becoming the first major U.S. bank to offer such functionality in competition with Google Inc.'s Android Pay.