Bloomberg TIAA is in talks to buy EverBank Financial Corp., the largest Florida-based lender by deposits, for about $2.5 billion as it seeks to expand in internet banking, according to Reuters. The deal would add to TIAA’s wealth-management business and give the financial-services firm, led by former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Roger Ferguson, a platform for providing personal and ...

  Sydney / AFP Australia’s largest banks will have to face a parliamentary committee for an annual grilling to “drive cultural change”, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Thursday as he addressed public disquiet about their behaviour. The country’s “big four” lenders — among the developed world’s most profitable — have been under scrutiny in recent years amid allegations of ...

  A lot’s been happening in the health-care markets. California announced that premiums would rise by an average of 13.2 percent on its exchanges, after years of being one of the standouts for low premium growth. Meanwhile, Anthem, a large insurer, said it would expand its presence in the Obamacare exchanges — but only if its merger with Cigna is ...