Retail & Commercial

Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI) in Oak Ridge, N.J., posted third-quarter profit of $5.5 million, up more than 14% from a year earlier as nonperforming assets and noninterest expenses declined.

PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (PNC), the seventh-largest U.S. bank by deposits, fell 4% after reporting a third-quarter profit that missed analysts' estimates.

Pacific Premier in Costa Mesa, Calif., needed more deposits to make more loans, so it took advantage of its rising share price to strike a deal for First Associations Bank in Dallas, which holds deposits for homeowners associations.

If your bank is gung-ho to issue prepaid cards, think again. Focus on how to retain checking account customers, rather than emulating Green Dot and Chase and issuing fee-based "prepaid cards" as a new (already outdated) product.

Some Oklahomans may be thankful their state crafted its own settlement with the nation's biggest banks over foreclosure practices following the housing bust.

River City Bank in Sacramento, Calif., has named a payments-technology veteran to its board of directors.

Internet connectivity has become an imperative for U.S. small businesses, yet most companies lack formal policies for Internet security and even fewer have contingency plans in the event of a security breach that could expose payment-card and other data.

The respected former B of A executive says shareholder capitalism has gone awry, and that bank directors should be just as worried about outperforming business units as laggard ones.

Fast-growing State Bank and Trust in Macon, Ga., has purchased substantially all of the assets of Altera Payroll, a payroll services company, to diversify its revenue stream.

Banks that wait to be told what to do won’t thrive because the possibility of surprising and delighting customers with innovation is exactly zero when you wait for them to tell you what to build.