Banking

After enjoying strong growth in its credit card business in 2012, Discover Financial Services is investing some of those returns in a more diverse range of products.

First Internet Bancorp (FIBP) is adding a director with experience in overseeing banks and tracking the regional economy.

We revisit our 10 most popular BankThink posts of 2012, based on audience page views.

As many individuals open their wallets and donate to a variety of charitable causes during the holidays, con artists and fraudsters are lurking online, using websites equipped with payments technologies, text messaging schemes and other methods to scam well-meaning do-gooders out of funds intended for worthy causes. It’s an ever-growing problem being addressed by e-commerce industry participants, law enforcement and other groups.

Large banks could learn a lot from James Black, the CEO of Citizens Community Bank in South Hill, Va., about listening to employees, informing shareholders and setting a clear direction.

CEO Victor Karpiak will resign as chairman, and Stilwell Group will add a representative to the Washington company's board.

Card company Capital One ties donations of phone minutes to downloads of its mobile banking app.

Chris Bauer says Anchor's "emergency" days are over, but the Wisconsin company is still losing money and operating under a regulatory order.

Citigroup's pullback in the affluent Main Line suburbs of Philadelphia is the latest example of banks trying to right-size their branch networks.

If banks apply a standard of parity, they will wind up in a holding pattern because right now and for the foreseeable future, Internet banking is not keeping pace with mobile platforms.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to acquire online coupon site Bloomspot Inc. for $35 million to bolster its credit card division, according to a memo.

Personal financial management provider MoneyDesktop has formed an alliance with online banking software vendor CUBUS Solutions.

LOS ANGELES – NCUA has reached a negotiated settlement on civil negligence charges with former WesCorp FCU CFO Todd Lane, the last of what was once 19 defendants in the case.

The $2.1 billion-asset parent of Stock Yards Bank & Trust said Thursday that it would pay roughly $7.8 million in cash and $11.7 million in stock for the $137 million-asset Bancorp, which owns The Bank Oldham County.

Hands-on testing of the latest version of PNC's Virtual Wallet reveals some improvements and some lingering performance issues.

Central Valley Community Bancorp (CVCY) in Fresno, Calif., is buying Visalia Community Bank (VSMU) in Visalia, Calif., for roughly $22 million.

Malicious program injects code into browsers to trick people into giving up their online banking credentials.

Discover Financial Services Inc., the sixth-biggest U.S. credit-card lender, posted a fiscal fourth-quarter profit that missed analysts’ estimates as increased expenses offset a decline in soured loans.

Discover Financial Services Inc. (DFS), the sixth-biggest U.S. credit-card lender, posted a fiscal fourth-quarter profit that missed analysts' estimates as increased expenses offset a decline in soured loans.

Three former executives of a defunct debt-collection firm have pleaded guilty to charges they lied to a bank that received funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.