Retail & Commercial

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is all about money — but increasingly, the question is whether it's about protecting money or making money.

A week after it announced involvement in the first contactless payment program in Germany, French terminal maker Ingenico SA says it plans to do the same thing in Portugal.

Citigroup's disappointing fourth-quarter report included an unexpected $500 million legal reserve related to its U.S. consumer businesses, as the CFPB reviews the bank's card products.

The fast-growing Berkshire Bank in Pittsfield, Mass., hopes that features like community rooms with video-game systems will attract customers as it enters new markets.

Westamerica Bancorp. (WABC) in San Rafael, Calif., reported lower quarterly earnings as low interest rates and competition took a bite out of its bottom line.

Bank of America laid more of its mortgage demons to rest, and reported strong earnings from global banking and wealth management.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was set to unleash an additional series of rules Thursday dictating how mortgage servicers interact with homeowners. The mandates are likely to come as highly unwelcome news to the industry.

A dissident investor has swapped out its candidate to join the board of First Financial Northwest (FFNW) in Renton, Wash.

More than six years after the onset of the worst U.S. real estate slump, Florida had the biggest increase in home seizures last year and the highest foreclosure rate, RealtyTrac said.

Bank of the Ozarks (OZRK) of Little Rock, Ark., posted a fourth-quarter profit gain despite sliding interest income, thanks in part to an acquisition that closed late in the year.