Retail & Commercial

The Pennsylvania company said in a recent filing that its board also looked at succession planning, service provider relationships, board expansion and financial forecasts before seeking bids and agreeing to sell to F.N.B. Corp.

An ACLU chapter sued Benton County, Wash., accusing it of sending people to jail or forcing them to toil on work crews if they fail to pay their court fines. The class-action case wants a ruling on the constitutionality of the county's collection strategies.

Old National said that by owning the branches instead of leasing them, it would have greater control of the properties, classify the branches as assets on its balance sheet and become more efficient.

Avoid viewing millennials as a monolithic group. Consider parsing them into subgroups such as affluent, homebuyers, entrepreneurs and savers. The smarter move may be removing the age bracket blinders entirely.

Minnesota’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that out-of-state payday lenders will have to follow the state’s strict lender law for Internet loans, rejecting an argument that the law is unconstitutional.

U.S. homeowners continue to take advantage of rising house prices to dig themselves out of the hole created by the Great Recession.

It started out as a chat over dinner and cocktails between a director of Trans Pacific National Bank and Dr. Robert Murray, a part-time physician for the San Francisco Giants.

WASHINGTON — The House voted 303 to 121 on Wednesday to pass a bill that would delay enforcement of new mortgage disclosures that went into effect on Oct. 3.

Royal Bank of Canada has received approval from the Federal Reserve Board to buy City National in Los Angeles.

Dime Community Bancshares in Brooklyn, N.Y., has agreed to sell a number of real estate properties for $80 million.