Retail & Commercial

Carolina Financial in Charleston, S.C., has agreed to acquire 13 branches in the Carolinas and additional assets from First Community Bancshares in Bluefield, Va.

Officials at PayPal said they were pleasantly surprised by the free plug that the electronic payment service got on a recent episode of "The Leftovers," a new HBO hit series.

As warehouse providers try to build market share with new types of credit lines, allowing mortgage bankers to fund non-QM loans is the logical next step to staying competitive.

Metrobank Card Corp. in the Philippines has signed an agreement to license the latest version of Total System Services' (TSYS) payment processing platform.

Northrim BanCorp in Anchorage, Alaska, has agreed to buy Residential Mortgage Holding Co.

Hal Brown and Roger Busse discuss how a thorough succession plan can reassure your regulators, why medical lending has been so hot recently and how to stand out among larger competitors.

BitPay's recent decision to eliminate its fees for small merchants sacrifices some of the company's revenue to boost the larger Bitcoin economy.

The private-equity firms Warburg Pincus and Thomas H. Lee Partners are selling roughly a third of their combined stake in Umpqua Holdings of Portland, Ore.

The $5.6 billion-asset Talmer Bancorp said in a press release Wednesday that it will pay $13.4 million in cash for First of Huron, the parent of Signature Bank.

Bank of America Corp. is nearing a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department in which it will pay between $16 billion and $17 billion to resolve probes into its sale of mortgage-backed bonds in the run-up to the financial crisis, a person familiar with the matter said.