Retail & Commercial

First National Bank of Santa Fe in New Mexico has a new leader.

Auction.com, an online real estate marketplace, has named Gordon Smith its general manager of commercial real estate.

Riverview Financial in Halifax, Pa., has received state regulators' approval to buy Citizens National Bank of Meyersdale in Pennsylvania for $8 million in cash and stock.

First Defiance Financial, in Ohio, has revised upward its fourth-quarter earnings after lowering its provision for fourth-quarter income taxes.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who forced Wall Street's biggest banks to pay billions in fines for their roles in the subprime mortgage crisis, is pressing for action against executives at those firms, even as he prepares to leave his post.

MasterCard has launched a service designed to bolster wallet share of corporate clients with interests in Japan.

Americans increased their borrowing in the final three months of 2014 and, in a troubling sign, are wrestling more with student and auto loans, according to a study released Tuesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Biddeford Savings Bank and Mechanics Savings Bank will form a holding company to help each cut costs and make bigger loans. But the thrifts are hoping to keep their own charters, and independence, over the long term.

HSBC has spent billions of dollars in compliance and legal costs, but the damaging scandals keep coming. Renewed attention on the problems at its Swiss private bank could fuel the debate about whether banks this size are too big to manage.

Metro Bancorp, a company under fire from activist investors, has adopted a shareholder rights agreement that will provide common stock shareholders a dividend of one right per share.