Banking

Daniel Schulman at American Express and Daniel Eckert at Walmart visited our offices and explained how they believe their new Bluebird account will shake up the status quo in financial services.

Pinnacle, the flagship bank unit of the $6.7 billion-asset Pinnacle Bancorp, agreed last Thursday to buy the $183 million-asset First State Bank of Joplin in Missouri. A day later, the bank announced plans to buy the $139 million-asset Hastings State Bank in Nebraska.

Faced with anemic demand for construction and real estate loans, community banks are continuing to find that the best way to expand in the much-desired commercial-and-industrial space is to raid bigger rivals.

Kelly King, the North Carolina company's CEO, vowed to remain conservative while scouting out opportunities in multifamily and office development.

Officials say servicing problems for service members with student loans are comparable to issues facing mortgage borrowers in the military.

Though Huntington, Fifth Third Bancorp and KeyCorp all reported relatively strong earnings, organic loan growth weakened amid continued uncertainty about the direction of the economy.

KCB Bank in Kearney, Mo., a unit of Bancshares of Missouri, filed an application this month with the Federal Reserve to assume the assets and liabilities of the $38 million-asset Northland National Bank in Gladstone, Mo.

U.S. Bancorp CEO Richard Davis embraced its very brief conference call with analysts as a good sign for his Minneapolis company.

Fresh off the controversy about her prepaid card, financial guru is trying something more offbeat — a museum exhibit about money in conjunction with the producer of "Body Worlds."

We need more experts who can investigate what happened and identify the perpetrators of attacks rather than simply focus on protecting our critical infrastructure.

American Express will likely take a fourth-quarter charge for higher spending on its rewards program, in the company's latest effort to keep its wealthy customers from defecting to other banks.

American Express is getting ready to spend even more to keep its best customers.

PayPal is streamlining its operations, consolidating nine different product teams into one organization.

For the past two years, the word "Isis" has meant a few different things for the payments industry. Its meaning will come into focus Oct. 22, when the joint venture will begin its much-publicized launch in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas.

A rapid improvement this year in the performance of Citi’s card portfolio has put the company firmly in the middle of the pack among the Big Six issuers, as the interactive graphic in this article shows.

Cybercriminals are reportedly prepping new attacks that can "clone" computers by bypassing commonly used device protection.

WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department said Thursday it will auction off its preferred shares in 11 more institutions that remain in the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Consumers who own a debit card issued by their bank definitely prefer that payment method to other options, including alternatives such as PayPal.

Improving conditions in the real estate market are helping Washington Federal (WAFD) in Seattle, but tight margins and other challenges lie ahead.

The regional bank is the ninth company to be hit with distributed denial of service attacks allegedly perpetrated by group affiliated with Iran.