Retail & Commercial

Intermountain Community Bancorp plans to conduct a 1-for-10 reverse stock split on Oct. 5.

Financial institutions with a long-term strategic interest in the credit card business should reap the benefits of the existing safe harbor and buy while it lasts. Those who don't should take advantage of the current environment and sell.

Awareness of contactless card payments in the UK has nearly doubled in the past year, resulting in more than a million payments per month, according to research that provides plenty of food for thought for the U.S. and other countries where such cards are available.

Risk management still has its weak spots, despite the valuable lessons banks learned from the financial crisis. Practitioners wonder if stopping the next blow-up is even a reasonable goal for the profession.

Bankers can declare an end to their summer of scandal now that Labor Day is done — but it remains to be seen whether the next few months will be any better.

Its future is as debated as any topic within credit unions, and as one panel of CEOs and analysts here made clear, that debate over what is to become of branch networks is not near being resolved.

TCF Financial changes its mind on imposing fees on formerly gratis checking accounts.

For all the anxiety in the financial services industry, upbeat stories abound at Keefe, Bruyeete & Wood's annual conference for community bank investors. Bonnie McGeer reports.

How can banks be something more than utilities in a world where regulation and technology are making their old business models untenable? SWIFT's Digital Asset Grid offers one possible answer.

Naugatuck Valley Financial (NVSL) said that two senior executives will serve as interim co-president and co-CEO while it waits on regulatory approval for an unidentified candidate to take on the job permanently.