Nearly 20 years ago, Chip Mahan's early Internet venture with Security First Network Bank led to the birth of S1 Corp., one of the boom times' most-hyped online-banking technology providers. Today, he's behind a startup small-business lender with another technology offshoot in mind: loan underwriting in the cloud.

It didn't take long for Live Oak to explode onto the SBA lending scene. Though it has just $330 million in assets, CEO Chip Mahan's latest banking venture trails only Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank on the government's list of the most active SBA lenders.

The outgoing head of the Small Business Administration gets high marks from bankers for cutting red tape, revamping little-used programs, improving outreach, and, most important, convincing lawmakers to raise caps so that banks could make larger loans.

Small-business customer want advice they can trust. KeyBank has a strategy for delivering it.

Small-business finance firm Kabbage turns to social media metrics to size up funding applicants.

Small-business loan volume is on the rise at big banks.

Joe Pierce, the president and CEO of Farmers State Bank, says a holiday ad, of all things, put him in an FDIC examiner's crosshairs.

Enrollment is up at the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking as banks return to financial health and executives once again invest in their employees' development.

Regulatory report says REITS holding a lot of mortgage-backed securities pose risks to the market.

Kids master fundamentals of banking at Montecito Bank's financial literacy summer program, Fun in the Sun.

Fraud is a growing problem with mobile devices, but users still want convenience.

It's time to kill CAMELS, says Richard J. Parsons, a Bank of America risk executive.

Though many servicers will be exempt from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's upcoming exams, its new rules on how to handle troubled homeowners will impact them all.

BOK's George Kaiser BankUnited's Patricia Kelly, Cleveland's Stefanski clan and other names in the news.

Notable quotes from across the financial industry.