Retail & Commercial

Wal-Mart and Target have vocally opposed the card networks' proposed multi-billion dollar interchange fee settlement, but even these giants may not have the influence to spike the agreement.

Banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc., sued for $2 billion by Thornburg Mortgage Inc. for allegedly helping it fail, lost a bid to move the case from bankruptcy court to district court as a Maryland judge said almost all the issues could be decided in bankruptcy court.

You should be able to move your money as fast as you can make it. But the banking system today works about as speedily as the Post Office.

JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $100 million to settle credit-card holder claims that the bank increased their required minimum payments after promising a fixed interest rate.

Home values posted their first year- over-year increase since 2007 in the second quarter as the property market began to lift off a bottom, Zillow Inc. said.

Banking analyst Richard Bove says Wells Fargo has been treating him terribly as a retail customer. He suspects that's an excellent business move.

The next six months are critical to the bank if it is to exit Tarp and stay independent, says Kessel Stelling, the Columbus, Ga., company’s chairman and CEO.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) agreed to pay $100 million to settle credit-card holder claims that the bank increased their required minimum payments after promising a fixed interest rate.

FirstMerit (FMER) in Akron, Ohio, trumped higher noninterest costs with more lending for a slight gain in quarterly profits.

Bank of America (BAC) has hired more than 30 bankers in the greater Chicago area as part of a broader plan to beef up its services for small-business owners.