Retail & Commercial

It would appear that a bank could not negotiate a loan on more favorable terms than the deal I was looking at. Yet, something did not make sense.

Wex Inc., partnering with CashStar, now allows its retailers in Australia and New Zealand to offer customized eGift cards. This move is part of an ongoing strategy on the Wex's part to diversify its offerings and its audience.

With each new mobile-payment function developers create for smartphones, a correlating new security risk arises. The riskiest aspect for merchants, issuers and consumers remains the initial phase — when consumers enroll for a product, says ValidSoft Ltd.

The $1.3 trillion-asset company said this week that its directors have elected Howard "Rick" Richardson to the board effective Jan. 1.

The president and chief executive of Talbot Bank of Easton, Md., will step down at yearend and an insider will take over.

The owner of a now defunct Missouri auto body shop has pleaded guilty in federal court to bank fraud charges.

Walgreens has transformed a historic Chicago building that housed two failed banks into a glamorous drugstore.

LANSING, Mich. – CASE CU said it is vacating four in-store Meijer branches at year-end after the credit union was defeated for the contract by Huntington Bank.

U.S. home-price gains this year weren't large enough to justify an increase in the maximum size of loans that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will purchase in 2013, the companies' regulator said today.

Consumer-focused regulations, in general, should reflect what financial products actually do, not the technicalities of who issues them or what legal status they hold.