Banking

Alma Bank in Long Island City, N.Y., will integrate technology from Diebold that allows for cardless transactions at automated teller machines.

The Pennsylvania company said in a recent filing that its board also looked at succession planning, service provider relationships, board expansion and financial forecasts before seeking bids and agreeing to sell to F.N.B. Corp.

An ACLU chapter sued Benton County, Wash., accusing it of sending people to jail or forcing them to toil on work crews if they fail to pay their court fines. The class-action case wants a ruling on the constitutionality of the county's collection strategies.

Old National said that by owning the branches instead of leasing them, it would have greater control of the properties, classify the branches as assets on its balance sheet and become more efficient.

Avoid viewing millennials as a monolithic group. Consider parsing them into subgroups such as affluent, homebuyers, entrepreneurs and savers. The smarter move may be removing the age bracket blinders entirely.

Minnesota’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that out-of-state payday lenders will have to follow the state’s strict lender law for Internet loans, rejecting an argument that the law is unconstitutional.

U.S. homeowners continue to take advantage of rising house prices to dig themselves out of the hole created by the Great Recession.

It started out as a chat over dinner and cocktails between a director of Trans Pacific National Bank and Dr. Robert Murray, a part-time physician for the San Francisco Giants.

WASHINGTON — The House voted 303 to 121 on Wednesday to pass a bill that would delay enforcement of new mortgage disclosures that went into effect on Oct. 3.

Royal Bank of Canada has received approval from the Federal Reserve Board to buy City National in Los Angeles.

Credit card networks and issuers have done a poor job in explaining the implications of the just-passed Oct. 1 deadline for moving to EMV chip-and-PIN cards, leaving many small businesses confused, lawmakers said Wednesday during a hearing on Capitol Hill.

Dime Community Bancshares in Brooklyn, N.Y., has agreed to sell a number of real estate properties for $80 million.

Banks say the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plan to ban arbitration clauses for individual claims will aid trial lawyers, while consumer advocates say the move is overdue and may not go far enough.

The $1.5 billion-asset bank issued $25 million of subordinated notes due 2025 in a private placement. WashingtonFirst used the proceeds to redeem $8.9 million in SBLF preferred shares, which it issued to the Treasury Department in 2011.

Traditional banks avoid the short-term-credit market because its customers demand a level of customer service that is inconsistent with current models of retail banking, the head of a payday lending group writes.

Many bank executives share a vision of revamped branches stocked with tablets for sales and service purposes, according to a new report. But first, institutions must overcome numerous IT obstacles.

Boston Private Financial Holdings has appointed a Silicon Valley executive to its board.

Consumer borrowing rose in August at the slowest pace in six months, reflecting a cooling in lending for student loans and autos, but still reached a record $3.47 trillion, according to Federal Reserve figures.

Relationship and people skills certainly remain important, but today's wealth management leaders require far more than those largely sales-oriented abilities.

WASHINGTON — It may not be an outright ban on arbitration clauses, but the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's impending proposal to enable more class-action lawsuits comes close.