Retail & Commercial

First Financial Bancorp of Cincinnati has pushed back the expected closing date for its acquisitions of First Bexley Bank and Insight Bank, pending a review by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ordered a New Jersey company, Stonebridge Title Services Inc., to pay $30,000 for paying illegal kickbacks for referrals.

Television financial advisor Suze Orman's prepaid debit card will be discontinued, according to a report in the New York Times.

Regions Financial (RF) in Birmingham, Ala., has split itself into two operating units — a general bank and a corporate bank.

The city of Miami claims in a new lawsuit that JPMorgan Chase & Co. engaged in discriminatory lending practices for years that worsened the foreclosure crisis in minority neighborhoods during the last decade's housing crisis.

SunTrust is expanding its auto-dealer financing business beyond the U.S. Southeast and will offer wholesale and other banking services to dealers in Chicago, Boston and Dallas.

Identifying which borrowers are likely to repay short-term, small-dollar loans could help lower costs for both consumers and the financial services industry.

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a new challenge to help expand the technological arsenal that can be used in the battle against illegal phone spammers.

New York officials have created a database of blacklisted lenders, and Bank of America has agreed to use it. Authorities hope that other banks will follow suit.

Irene Dorner did a lot to turn around HSBC's troubled U.S. operations following violations of U.S. anti-money-laundering regulations that led to a record penalty, but successor Patrick Burke and a new U.S. compliance chief will have to pick up the recovery at its midpoint and finish the job.