If you are among the people who use a physical bank and your local branch is closing, here are four things you can do. 1. Embrace online banking.

If you're looking for a new bank, and not of the Bank of America variety, financial site Kiplinger explains how to use several free tools to find a local bank where you're sure your money is safe.

Peoples Bank is in the processing of acquiring Royal Savings Bank on Chicago's South Side. Once that deal is done, it will have more than $2.1 billion in assets, making it three times as large as ...