There wasn't just one recipe for landing among the top-performing banks with $50 billion or more in assets. There were two — or, in some cases, a mix of both.

OFG Bancorp, the parent company of Oriental Bank, has steadily climbed American Banker's rankings of the nation's top-performing banks. Here's how the Puerto Rican bank did it.

United Bank and Five Points Bank, both ranked among the top-performing banks by Capital Performance Group, said they have stayed in the mortgage business because they see it as a way to build strong relationships in the communities they serve.

Because open banking models rely on the combination of usernames and passwords to identify customers, those who don't bank online are left out. The technology exists to solve that problem.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent decision to make it more difficult to see customer complaint narratives is depriving the financial services industry of a vital source of business intelligence.

An FDIC plan to help community banks evaluate potential fintech partners is valuable, as far as it goes. But it cannot account for the unique and specific risks that arise when two companies operate in partnership.

Thirty-seven percent of those making more than $500,000 live paycheck to paycheck, Goldman Sachs found, making this a problem for more than just lower- income workers.

Advisory practice sellers frequently wish they had taken more time for important strategic tasks before the deal, David Grau of Succession Resource Group says. He provided a list explaining why the timeline will take longer than many sellers may think.

The new platform looks to personalize both client and planner profiles to create better matches and relationships.

Larger public companies' high-profile servicing acquisitions tend to get the spotlight, but the two top leaders in the Ginnie MSR market are quieter players currently run as private companies.

Home value fell in real terms, as inflation ran 1.5 percentage points above price growth, down slightly from 3.5% in June, according to the Case-Shiller index.

The GSEs also have unified 4.0 pricing for loans scored with classic FICO while 10T moves toward 2027 adoption at FHA but remains pending at the enterprises.