Retail & Commercial

Umpqua Holdings (UMPQ) in Portland, Ore., is continuing to expand across California. The $11.5 billion-asset company said Monday that it plans to open a center in Templeton, Calif., in January to make loans to agricultural customers.

Bank of Hays has agreed to buy Farmers' State Bank of Jetmore, Kan.

A new survey of 310 banks finds that just over half of them have either begun offering or are in the process of evaluating prepaid cards.

Eagle Bancorp and Camco Financial both announced capital deals last week, but for entirely different reasons. Eagle is experiencing strong growth, while Camco is still recovering. Deal advisors say the companies represent the two types of capital raises taking place right now.

Yaron Samid, founder and CEO of BillGuard, explains his company's analytics technology and how it discovers unwanted billing charges for consumers, as well as its work with the CFPB and with banks.

Goldman Sachs (GS) is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower-court decision involving securities backed by residential mortgages the company says would cost financial firms tens of billions of dollars.

OpenWay, a payment processing company in Brussels, is offering a range of integrated online and mobile financial services and has its eyes on the North American market.

Bank of Virginia (BOVA) in Midlothian has extended its rights offering deadline because of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

More than half of community bankers think they’ll be involved in a deal within the next two years, either as a buyer or a seller, according to a survey by KPMG.

The $1.3 billion-asset parent company of Orrstown Bank, which regulators ordered in March to strengthen its credit risk management practices, said Monday that Robert Coradi will oversee the company’s credit management functions.