Retail & Commercial

Vendors are jockeying to be the go-to firm for banks that wish to shed the piles of paper statements and bills still blocking the path to low-cost digital processing.

Starbucks' $25 million investment in Square says a lot about the mobile payment provider's appeal to larger merchants — but the coffee chain's decision to leave out some of Square's technology also speaks volumes.

The case of Cross River Bank demonstrates how small banks swimming in excess liquidity are getting creative to add loans. The Teaneck, N.J., bank's CEO and senior lenders are walking visiting businesses offer small 0% loans.

Bowing to pressure from community bankers, regulators extended the comment period on a set of proposals that will lift banks' minimum capital requirement to 7%.

KeyBank will soon get to test the power of years of investments to its operations and redesigns to rewards as it moves its credit card operation back under its own roof.

Standard Chartered PLC Chief Executive Officer Peter Sands denied a New York regulator's claims the lender broke U.S. anti money-laundering rules, and challenged the accuracy of the watchdog's report.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency warned Wednesday it would take action, if necessary, to stop cities from using eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages and attorneys say they are likely to prevail.

Robert Hill, SCBT's president and CEO, announces his second open-bank deal in nine months as it looks to consolidate in South Carolina and Georgia. SCBT has also bought three failed banks since January 2010.

Bridge Capital Holdings (BBNK) has put its expanding capital-finance business into a separate division and named Lee Shodiss its boss.

The mortgage-writedown program that the FHFA rejected would have produced little benefit to the housing market. But principal forgiveness, done right, can do a lot of good while minimizing potential harm.