Orrstown Financial Services Inc. has agreed to pay a $1 million civil penalty to settle an investigation into the way it accounted for bad loans in 2010, according to a regulatory filing by the Shippensburg-based bank holding company.

Who needs one more app on a smartphone crammed with screen after screen of those little square icons?

While debt of nearly every kind has shrunk in the U.S. since the recession in 2008, student loan debt is an outlier that keeps growing at alarming rates.

Orrstown Bank has invested millions of dollars in technology, and plans by mid-October to introduce a new electronic teller system for customers.

Retirement was short for Harrisburg's Linda Goldstein, who is back helping businesses in the banking sector.

Fulton Financial Corp. is rolling out new programs that build on its efforts to create affordable mortgages and other services for people with low-to-moderate incomes.

Four Pennsylvania financial executives — including the president of Dauphin County-based Centric Bank — are among the 50 most powerful women in banking and finance, according to American Banker Magazine.

When it comes to mergers, no news is ... well, no news.

The number of Central Pennsylvanians who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth fell by double digits over the last year, according to California-based CoreLogic.

I looked across at one of the head tables Friday afternoon at the Salvation Army's Shoe Strut event in East Pennsboro Township. Half of the women there had been featured in our monthly Women in Leadership newsletter.

Local real estate investors are flipping more houses this year and making bigger profits on sales, according to the latest data from California-based ATTOM Data Solutions, parent company of RealtyTrac.