Retail & Commercial

Access National's four-year-old wealth management subsidiary has grown rapidly and is poised to enter the black. The allure of fee revenues has drawn many community banks into this field amid weak loan growth and tight interest margins.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new mortgage integrated disclosure rules will now take effect Saturday, Oct. 3, two days later than the previously rescheduled Oct. 1 deadline.

We polled a number of prominent women in banking to ask who they believed should replace Alexander Hamilton as the face of the $10 bill. Here are some of their suggestions.

To address the impact of American Express President Ed Gilligan's death in May, the card network has changed some executive roles and revised its internal corporate structure.

Wells Fargo has ended its sponsorship of the National Basketball Association's Charlotte Hornets.

Bankers and commercial real estate developers are protesting new restrictions on construction lending, arguing they are poised to hurt credit availability and drive loans into risky, unregulated sectors.

Credit Karma in San Francisco has raised $175 million in venture capital to expand its product offerings for consumers' personal finances.

Debt collection litigation is not following any particular pattern this year. The only certainty is that Telephone Consumer Protection Act litigation is having a really bad (or, good, depending on your perspective) year.

A number of class-action lawsuits allege that investment advisers breached fiduciary duty by failing to recommend the least expensive products. But both trust law and investment theory acknowledge that responsible advisers take other factors into consideration.

Northwest Bancorp. in Spokane, Wash., has agreed to buy Fairfield Financial Holdings in Fairfield, Wash., for about $21 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter.