Retail & Commercial

Small-business owners are likely to pull back on purchases of computers, machinery and other long-term investments in 2013, according to a survey released Thursday by Wells Fargo (WFC) and Gallup.

Synovus Financial in Columbus, Ga., has sold roughly $530 million of problem assets and expects to take a pretax charge of $155 million tied to the move.

Citizens Bank of Edmond in Oklahoma and BBCN Bancorp in L.A. rewarded workers by letting them film "Gangnam Style" videos — and customers and YouTube watchers dug 'em.

As more retailers begin using quick-response (QR) codes for mobile payments at the checkout line, Bank of America is introducing the codes at the teller line.

Consumers disputed up to 38 million items on their consumer credit reports last year at the three largest consumer reporting agencies, according to a report released Thursday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Service CU a 13-foot Globe Sculpture outside its new 100,000 square-foot headquarters to President/CEO Gordon Simmons at the conclusion of their grand opening ceremonies Tuesday

COLLEGEVILLE, Penn. – Superior CU and Perkiomen Valley School District officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Nov. 29 for a new bank branch opened inside Perkiomen Valley High School.

VIENNA, Va. – Navy FCU, which has opened 42 branches since the start of 2010, is opening two more branches Monday, its 6th and 7th new branches in the last four months.

Joe L. Albritton, the longtime chairman and chief executive at Riggs National Bank in Washington, died of heart failure Wednesday in a Houston hospital, according to the Washington Post. He was 87.

Alliance Data Systems (ADS) has signed a long-term agreement to launch a private-label credit card program for clothing retailer Dots.