Retail & Commercial

The arrangement is designed to benefit commercial clients of both banks that operate on multiple continents. The companies reached the arrangement as part of the recent sale of Bank of the West.

The move comes after rivals Bank of America and Goldman Sachs Group cut CEO pay, while JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo left theirs unchanged.

Customers will enter or modify their financial goals in Life Sync, which will immediately alert their financial advisor. 

Buckeye State Bancshares near Columbus said it would buy cross-state rival Rockhold Bancshares. Only six such deals were announced in January, making it the slowest first month of a year for M&A since the financial crisis.

The cut reverts the mortgage insurance requirement to pre-financial crisis levels.

TD Bank estimates it hands out 20 million pens every year. Huntington is getting close to offering its 80 millionth pen. It's a way to get a bank's brand to travel with customers across the globe, but is it worth it?

Octaura, an electronic portal backed by seven global banks, completed its first syndicated loan trades earlier this month.

The Canadian-owned bank is retiring its Hubert the Lion mascot, which Harris Bank originated more than a century ago. Other furry representatives have also faded out as the banking industry has become more nationalized.

JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America threatened to leave climate group NZBA late last year if limits on their fossil-fuel activities were imposed, concerned that they would be legally bound, according to people familiar with the process.

If the industry's largest players reported more payment information to the credit bureaus, many consumers would qualify for better offers from competitors, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said. It's the latest example of the bureau's increased scrutiny of credit card companies.