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.

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.

In the age of artificial intelligence and digitization, banks run the risk of looking homogenous. The differentiator will always be the willingness of bankers to work to engage with customers and communities.

Amid political pushback around ESG, Climate Week panelists say firm leaders should focus less on the label and more on the risks that matter to clients.

The trends of big profits, consolidation and slow organic growth are creating a lot of contradictions with the pay of financial advisors and other RIA staff members, according to The Ensemble Practice's annual tracking study.

As regulators lower regulatory hurdles, many advisors are seeking greater access to private investments, while asset managers and fintechs are trying to eliminate technical barriers keeping regular investors out.

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.

The guidance reflects a mortgage servicing rights market that has broadly included the customer value in refinancing for over a decade, experts say.