Retail & Commercial

Hawaii National Bank in Honolulu has a new chief financial officer.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency's new director, Mel Watt, has appointed four veteran government officials as special advisors.

Patriot National Bancorp (PNBK) in Stamford, Conn., is in the market for a new president and chief executive.

All of the typical measures of mortgage distress continue to improve, according to CoreLogic's National Foreclosure Report for November. The report contains a supplement featuring quarterly shadow inventory data as of October 2013.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to draft rules governing payday lending this year. But the conventional wisdom that will likely guide it is based on false perceptions about the working poor and the best way to serve them. So argues Lisa Servon, a professor at The New School.

Farmers & Merchants Bank (FMBL) in Long Beach, Calif., has hired a chief banking officer, filling a newly created post.

No matter how streamlined my finances have become, there is one regular nuisance: sending money to and from family or friends without the friction that requires recipients to provide hard-to-remember information like account numbers and routing numbers.

Iberiabank Corp. (IBKC) in Lafayette, La., has agreed to buy Teche Holding (TSH) in New Iberia, La.

We’re asking customers from different demographics to describe what they are looking for from their financial services providers.

Neiman Marcus Group Ltd. said Jan. 10 that some unauthorized purchases may have been made with customer cards, the second retailer after Target Corp. to be struck by hackers during the important holiday season.