Retail & Commercial

Crazy Woman Creek Bancorp in Buffalo, Wyo., has exited the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Federal and state regulators on Wednesday stopped an online scheme that allegedly lured consumers with offers of free credit scores.

Discover Financial Services will take a $178 million charge in the fourth quarter to make changes to its cashback rewards program.

The Federal Trade Commission recorded more than 40,000 cases of grandparent scams from 2010 to 2013 and the scam is widely considered to be underreported.

Biometric authentication may seem all the rage now that Apple uses fingerprint authentication in its mobile wallet, but the Bitcoin ATM provider RoboCoin has concluded that biometric technology can be more of a hassle than a help.

First Savings Bank of Perkasie in Perkasie, Pa., has agreed to merge with First Federal of Bucks County in Bristol, Pa.

Independent Bank Corp. in Rockland, Mass., has raised $35 million by issuing debt.

First National Corp. in Strasburg, Va., has agreed to buy six branches in Virginia from Bank of America.

Lawyers for the U.S. and Wells Fargo told a judge they doubt they can reach a settlement in a government lawsuit accusing the bank of home-mortgage fraud, a person familiar with the matter said.

Whether financial services executives love or hate Bitcoin, experts say the digital currency's underlying technology will inevitably affect their businesses. And the next generation of consumers are driving this change.