Retail & Commercial

Community & Southern Holdings has agreed to acquire a branch in metro Atlanta from Ameris Bancorp.

For retailers, buying a new point of sale payment system is becoming as easy as buying a stapler or a sheaf of paper. Staples has begun selling several pieces of hardware revolving around NCR’s point of sale system called Silver.

The bank for Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC) in Springfield, Mo., has agreed to sell its travel agency and insurance units so it can focus on its core business.

The results from the latest J.D. Power report are a validation of Huntington's recent efforts to strengthen its small-business banking capabilities.

Massachusetts' Senator-elect may be public enemy No. 1 among bankers, but Citizens Republic CEO offers this reassurance: "She's but one vote."

BETHESDA, Md. – Navy FCU is opening a new branch tomorrow at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, adjacent to the new 150,000 square-foot Navy Exchange shopping mall on Wisconsin Ave., and a stone’s throw from the Washington D.C., border.

It was a privilege and a learning experience to meet some old-school bankers during my travels as an examiner some 50 years ago. Here are some who left lasting impressions.

At first, payments players were wary of the LevelUp mobile-pay system, but the startup behind it is fast building relationships with the very companies it could potentially disrupt.

Hundreds of retailers opposed to Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc.’s proposed $7.25 billion settlement of a merchant fee price-fixing case will try to convince a federal judge the deal should be thrown out.

In an effort to better serve its overseas customers, VeriFone has begun rolling out a version of its mobile payments system, Sail, that accepts EMV-chip cards.