Big banks with the strongest financial performance varied in asset size, geographies and services.

Each of the top-performing banks with more than $50 billion of assets used their own mix of revenue streams to drive performance.

Among banks with between $10 billion and $50 billion of assets, those that targeted narrow lending markets rose to the top.

Jay Brogdon, currently president of the Arkansas bank, will take the helm at the beginning of next year.

Emma Bienias is managing director of Stout, a global advisory firm specializing in corporate finance, accounting and transaction advisory, valuation, financial disputes, claims, and investigations.  She has a background in performing valuation engagements for various purposes including financial reporting, tax valuations, business reorganizations, pre-acquisition diligence, post-acquisition disputes, fairness and solvency opinions and other management planning and corporate-related matters. Emma has experience providing expert litigation support for analyses of economic damages resulting from the infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property rights. She has performed damage analyses that included consideration of unjust enrichment, loss profits, and reasonable royalty. Emma also combines financial, market and competitive information to value intellectual property for a variety of objectives such as regulatory compliance, licensing and sale transactions, and securing financing for corporate acquisitions and expansion.

The bank is working through a list of legal issues it inherited when it bought Credit Suisse in early 2023.

Aleisha Donald is a partner consultant at Xero.

Jay Brogdon, currently president of the Arkansas bank, will take the helm at the beginning of next year.

Emma Bienias is managing director of Stout, a global advisory firm specializing in corporate finance, accounting and transaction advisory, valuation, financial disputes, claims, and investigations.  She has a background in performing valuation engagements for various purposes including financial reporting, tax valuations, business reorganizations, pre-acquisition diligence, post-acquisition disputes, fairness and solvency opinions and other management planning and corporate-related matters. Emma has experience providing expert litigation support for analyses of economic damages resulting from the infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property rights. She has performed damage analyses that included consideration of unjust enrichment, loss profits, and reasonable royalty. Emma also combines financial, market and competitive information to value intellectual property for a variety of objectives such as regulatory compliance, licensing and sale transactions, and securing financing for corporate acquisitions and expansion.

The bank is working through a list of legal issues it inherited when it bought Credit Suisse in early 2023.

Bankers are concerned about stablecoins gaining traction due to the passage of the GENIUS Act, and also continue to sound the alarm about the failure to resolve check fraud disputes, according to the latest quarterly survey from IntraFi.

Pulaski Savings Bank's failure will cost the FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund 57.6% of its total assets.

The CEO of First Northwest Bancorp is promising to fight a lawsuit claiming the lender helped a client perpetrate a Ponzi scheme that bilked a hedge fund out of more than $100 million.

Most Influential Women in Payments honorees say the dramatic expansion in technology presents new opportunities and challenges as employers evolve away from traditional business models.

Honorees from American Banker's Most Influential Women in Payments discuss spotting tangible uses for innovation, rather than buying into hype.

Each year, American Banker recognizes the women who are advancing the payments industry in banking, retail, acquiring, processing and more.