Mark Skertic

Federal investigators are trying to find out if some commodity traders knew in advance that the government had found the first U.S. case of mad cow disease in December, a...

MB Financial Inc. is planning a four-story office building on the Near West Side, a move the bank's president is calling a major step in increasing its presence in the...

Got a problem with the practices at Bank One or Citibank? You may not get much help by taking your troubles to Illinois banking regulators or the state attorney general....

Customers might never notice, but many Illinois banks have made a fundamental change in their corporate makeup that benefits the institutions' owners. The banks, most of them smaller community banks,...

Discovery of a single mad-cow-infected Holstein in southern Washington state was enough to halt trading in beef futures and rock the stock prices of companies whose livelihood depends on sales...

Robert Greifeld, chief executive of Nasdaq, on Tuesday denied a report that he approached the New York Stock Exchange about a merger. Speaking on CNBC, Greifeld said an article in...

Bank One Corp. has fixed a lingering problem with its retail branches that had frustrated customers trying to do business at offices out of state. Just because the Bank One...

In an era of intense competition for customers, businesses that take ethical or legal shortcuts will end up turning away the customers they're trying to attract, Frank Techar, president and...

Harris Bank's growth plans include stretching beyond Illinois' borders. Bank of Montreal, Harris' Canadian parent, released its quarterly results this week. During a presentation to analysts and the press, Tony...

Having banks and credit unions in a low-income area is a key element if people in those neighborhoods want to move up the economic ladder, according to a study by...