Retail & Commercial

The $2.1 billion-asset parent of Stock Yards Bank & Trust said Thursday that it would pay roughly $7.8 million in cash and $11.7 million in stock for the $137 million-asset Bancorp, which owns The Bank Oldham County.

Central Valley Community Bancorp (CVCY) in Fresno, Calif., is buying Visalia Community Bank (VSMU) in Visalia, Calif., for roughly $22 million.

Discover Financial Services Inc., the sixth-biggest U.S. credit-card lender, posted a fiscal fourth-quarter profit that missed analysts’ estimates as increased expenses offset a decline in soured loans.

Discover Financial Services Inc. (DFS), the sixth-biggest U.S. credit-card lender, posted a fiscal fourth-quarter profit that missed analysts' estimates as increased expenses offset a decline in soured loans.

Three former executives of a defunct debt-collection firm have pleaded guilty to charges they lied to a bank that received funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Investors Bancorp of Short Hills, N.J., has agreed to buy Roma Financial Corp. of Robbinsville, N.J. The deal, scheduled to close in the second quarter, would bring together two mutual thrifts and create a company with assets of more than $13 billion.

The popularity of the Square payment-card reader has sparked a new market for accessories — smaller versions of the cases and sleeves people commonly buy for the iPhones which Square readers attach to.

Adding to a storehouse of capital and maintaining strong regulatory relationships are among the banking veteran's top priorities following a failed bid to sell his company in early 2012.

The bank is retrenching from some of the country's wealthiest suburbs, abandoning some of its years-long efforts to cultivate affluent customers.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may have lost billions of dollars as a result of banks' allegedly manipulating the Libor benchmark that determines the price at which banks lend to one another.