Retail & Commercial

Plastiq, a payments technology company, announced a $6 million round of Series A financing.

No, Tamara Hambright and Paula Vardell aren't sisters, but the longtime co-workers say they have become two halves of the same brain and will work hard to build up the Dallas bank's warehouse lending division.

Federal prosecutors have charged Wilbur Tate, now of Dacula, Ga., with conspiracy to commit bank bribery, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program said Wednesday.

Are regulatory rules meant to make big banks safer instead doing more to shield them from competition from smaller players?

There's an oversupply of old-fashioned branches, and banks don't know what to do with them, says industry consultant and executive recruiter Rod Taylor.

Royal Bank of Canada, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Toronto-Dominion Bank reported first-quarter profits that topped analysts' estimates on record earnings from personal and commercial lending.

OceanFirst Financial in Toms River, N.J., has hired the former chief executive of Patriot National Bancorp as its president.

Peoples Financial in Biloxi, Miss., is resuming stock buybacks.

If a customer connects to an open Wi-Fi network, fails to follow adequate Bluetooth communications protocol or uses shoddy passwords on smartphones, a bank's internal networks may be exposed to fraud.

Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) will sell a 25% stake in its Citizens Financial Group unit in the U.S. and shrink its investment bank to boost capital, the British bank said Thursday.