Retail & Commercial

American Express Co. faces many challenges over the way it operates, but the CEO's 2012 compensation signals that the company is focusing on its strengths.

Bankers at the trade group's annual conference want to focus on momentum, although many acknowledge lingering doubt about the future.

First Bancorp in Troy, N.C., has applied for regulatory approval to move its headquarters to Southern Pines, N.C.

Empowering the unbanked to save and invest in themselves and others, through technology as simple as text- or Tweet-to-pay, will create opportunities to get people out of poverty.

Community Bank of Tri-County in Waldorf, Md., has named a new chief risk officer.

Bank holding companies saw a dip in wealth management income in the first three quarters of 2012, a new study says.

Over 40 million Americans are under- or un-banked. Operation HOPE Chief Executive John Hope Bryant discusses how banks can make customers out of this under-served market and do well by doing good in the process.

ST Financial Group in College Station, Texas, plans to buy a small bank near Dallas. The parent company of Spirit of Texas Bank has agreed to purchase Peoples Bank in Colleyville, which has $72 million in assets and two branches.

Independent sales organizations and agents can use automated clearing house and credit card data to identify the most likely prospects for transaction services.

Bank of Astoria in Oregon plans to convert all of its branches to the Columbia Bank brand, nine years after the two lenders merged.