Retail & Commercial

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has created an online guide to help the roughly 25% of U.S. public service workers eliminate their student loans.

Traditional bank M&A in Georgia has been nearly dead in recent years, but Hamilton State Bancshares' deal this week to buy Cherokee Banking suggests that the Peach State may be primed for consolidation.

The Swiss banking giant said Wednesday that it expects to invest $36.5 million and to bring about 1,000 workers to the city as part of the expansion. The company will add the jobs over the next five years.

Independent Bank (IBCP) in Ionia, Mich., has raised $89 million as part of a plan to exit the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Mortgage lenders are facing billions of dollars in new demands that they make whole the government and government-sponsored entities for housing-backed investments that have gone sour. American Banker staffers discuss why now, what additional banks are likely to get sucked in and whether an end to the demands is in sight.

The strength of America's financial system is a result of the diversity of its players, but that diversity won’t survive if our nation continues down the path of one-size-fits-all regulatory reform.

Disaster recovery. Offering customers job-search help. Penetrating underserved markets. Dishing out ice cream to promote a brand. Financial institutions have a multitude of reasons for deploying services on wheels. Here are five financial institutions offering services via motor vehicle across the country.

The chief credit officer at Hanmi Financial in Los Angeles has resigned.

Consumers' confidence in the economy moved closer to a 5 1/2-year high as a result of growing optimism that wages and hiring will improve in the next few months.

Heartland Financial in Dubuque, Iowa, has hired a chief financial officer.