Retail & Commercial

The bottom line at Solera National Bancorp in Lakewood, Colo., improved from a year earlier, though losses persisted amid management upheaval.

NCR's updating its NCR Silver point of sale system to support Bitcoin transactions as retailer acceptance of virtual currency starts to accelerate.

Fannie Mae executives are confident they can responsibly administer a new 3% down payment program to ensure it's an effective tool for increasing access to credit.

Ambitious Renasant Corp. in Mississippi is still billions of dollars away from a key regulatory threshold of $10 billion in assets, but it's getting ready now for the demands that come with growing that large. Two of its top executives explain why.

As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau prepares to write nationwide rules for payday lending, a Colorado experiment is proving instructive.

The Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case related to the use of disparate impact theory to charge organizations with discrimination under the Fair Housing Act. The case highlights a key problem with current interpretation of the statute: it ignores a basic statistical pattern that makes it hard to determine which practices would produce a better outcome for protected groups.

A large activist investor has given an early vote of confidence to Malvern Bancorp's new chief executive, while backing off of demands that the Paoli, Pa., company sell itself.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office has sued Consumer Collection Advocates Corp. and Michael Robert Ettus, principal, for allegedly targeting consumers who were victims of previous frauds or scams.

Shaza Andersen recently sent out a companywide email stating that employees who don't deposit their paychecks into a WashingtonFirst account will soon be required to pick up paper checks — from her office.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency closed Frontier Bank FSB in Palm Desert, Calif.