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First Financial Corporation declared a semiannual dividend on Friday, May 24th, Stock Ratings Network.com reports.

About five hours after the RBC Financial Group bank in Torbay was robbed at knife point this afternoon, the RNC sent out a news release confirming it had arrested two people in connection with the incident.

A man walks past the Royal Bank of Canada offices in downtown Ottawa, October 31, 2011.

John Eugene Walker was taken into custody U.S. Attorney's Office filed a complaint accusing him of bank robberies in Sandy and Salt Lake City.

The student speakers representing the top 1 percent of John Marshall High School's graduating class Friday refused to follow any template for their speeches, and they refused to look at the close of their high school careers as any kind of end.

HSBC chairman Douglas Flint publicly apologised to shareholders yesterday for the bank's failings after it was fined 1.3 billion in December following a probe into its Mexican and stateside operations.

Shares in Taiwan took a beating to close below 8,300 points Thursday amid fears that the U.S. Federal Reserve will make an early exit from its current quantitative easing after sending mixed messages on the issue, dealers said.

UBS ' French unit could be placed under formal investigation in the coming days as part of a broader probe into the Swiss bank's business practices, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that Bank of America Corp, Wells Fargo and Co and other banks violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing abuses.

Bank of America Corp. , the second-largest U.S. lender by assets, is seeking buyers for about 40 branches in New York and Pennsylvania, four people with knowledge of the matter said.

HSBC 's Chairman Douglas Flint said on Friday the pace of reform in the banking industry must be accelerated to avoid investor confidence in the sector being undermined.

Dominion Resources is making the largest ever private-sector donation to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia.

Representatives of GreeceA's creditors and the competition branch of the European Commission are asking domestic commercial banks to sell off their non-banking activities in Greece and their subsidiary and affiliated banks in Southeastern Europe.

A copy of the settlement was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. It awards a 10-year contract to the Bank of New York and promises to give the bank and its affiliate as much business as possible for a decade.

The Hopi Tribe of northern Arizona claims its investments were mishandled by a national banking institute, resulting in the loss of millions of dollars.

China 's manufacturing is contracting in May for the first time in seven months, adding to signs that economic growth is losing steam for a second quarter.

A top European Central Bank official says an agency with powers to restructure and wind down busted banks is "indispensable" to strengthening the continent's banking system against future turmoil.

A top European Central Bank official says an agency with powers to restructure and wind down busted banks is "indispensable" to strengthening the continent's banking system against future turmoil.

Deutsche Bank 's bosses tried to convince skeptical shareholders at a lively annual meeting on Thursday that the bank was on the right track again after facing a host of legal problems.