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Stephen Fleming of River City Bank and Lokesh Sikaria of Moneta Ventures LLC have been selected to a national list of notable financial executives.

The Business Journals’ Influencers: Finance spotlights 100 executives who are having an impact on business being done in communities across the nation.

These 100 executives represent both large, nationally known lenders as well as smaller, community based institutions. The group also includes entrepreneurial investors and the financials stewards…

Longtime Boston banking executive Chad Gifford is stepping down from CBS Corp.’s board of directors as part of a larger settlement agreement between the media company and its controlling shareholder, Norwood-based National Amusements, which is owned by the Redstone family.

The settlement, revealed Sunday, seemingly ends months of intense and well-publicized boardroom drama involving Shari Redstone and CBS board members including Gifford. He is the former chairman of Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:…

Chase for Business is bringing its nationwide tour of the bank’s BizMobile to town Sept. 14 as the bank continues its major branch expansion in the region. The business center on wheels will be at Howard University, 2301 Georgia Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., 20001, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“The BizMobile is a great opportunity for us to bring expert advice right to where our customers are. After all, every small business owner needs mentors, time and money,” says Andrew Kresse, CEO of Business…

It's the bank's maiden voyage for Tech First, in which 12 area entrepreneurs from the tech sector will pitch to more than 10 venture capital groups coming in from Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis.

The investment allows the startup to scale its network of ground optical stations that can transmit large amounts of data quickly into space.

Jeff Jones of H&R Block Inc., Sandy Kemper of C2FO and two other Kansas City-focused business leaders have been selected to a national list of notable financial executives.

The Business Journals' Influencers: Finance spotlights 100 executives who are having an impact on business being done in communities nationwide.

These 100 executives represent large, nationally known lenders as well as smaller, community-based institutions. The group also includes entrepreneurial investors and the financial…

The Category 4 storm is menacing the East Coast.

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom was among the initial speakers unveiled Monday for next year's South by Southwest.

Systrom, who is also co-founder of Facebook Inc.-owned Instagram, will be interviewed by TechCrunch Editor-At-Large Josh Constine in one of the festival's primary keynotes.

Some of the other speakers unveiled Monday:

• Film producer and Blumhouse Productions CEO Jason Ferus Blum will have a conversation with independent filmmaker and producer John Pierson, who helped produce movies…

But recently enacted reforms may yet bring cost savings to the smaller banks.

A year after the Equifax data breach that affected 148 million Americans, at least 91 percent of consumers have taken some action to protect their credit cards, a new survey from CompareCards finds.

CompareCards.com commissioned Qualtrics to ask 1,037 Americans with a credit card or debit card if they had taken any of 10 steps to protect themselves from identity theft. The average respondent had done three. The most common actions taken, according to CompareCards:

65 percent started looking at…