Retail & Commercial

Braintree, a payment technology business owned by eBay and PayPal, has opened up Bitcoin acceptance to its merchant clients, including airbnb, GitHub, Uber and LivingSocial.

SB Financial in Defiance, Ohio, has redeemed $10.3 million in trust-preferred securities, in an effort to lower its interest-related expenses.

Community bankers are launching a last-ditch effort to push the Senate this year to pass more than a dozen bipartisan regulatory relief bills that have already cleared the House with support from both parties.

U.S. bankruptcy filings totaled 75,170 in August, down 16% from 88,962 in August 2013. It's the largest year-to-year drop so far in 2014, according to data from Epiq Systems Inc.

National Bank of Commerce in Birmingham, Ala. has purchased a majority stake in the parent company of a collections and accounts receivable management firm.

Bankers joined loan guarantors in pushing the Federal Housing Finance Agency to ease proposed capital rules for mortgage insurers, saying the plan will make borrowing less affordable for homebuyers unless it's revised.

The nonbank mortgage lender is moving closer to issuing its first private-label mortgage-backed security.

Ontario Systems has been honored with the 2014 When Work Works Award for its use of effective workplace strategies to increase business and employee success.

Pacific Mercantile Bancorp in Costa Mesa, Calif., promoted Robert Sjogren to be chief operating officer of the holding company and its bank subsidiary.

The Federal Reserve is making clear that the status quo, in which U.S. electronic payments take days to complete, is not going to hold, an industry analyst says.