BOK benefited from rising rates and revenue from its wealth management businesses, even as loan growth remained flat and other fee income categories declined.

The new tax law took a one-time bite out of fourth-quarter results, but higher rates strengthened yields and new business boosted fee income.

Wealth management assets, deposits and fee income swelled at the San Francisco bank, but interest and noninterest costs rose along with them.

The company is exploring a range of options to diversify its balance sheet, but new CEO Thomas Cangemi says the best plan of attack is to merge with or acquire another institution.

Amerant Mortgage includes several former bankers from City National Bank of Florida in Miami.

The auto finance company, which had stumbled in forays into the credit card business, is now seeing rapid growth in mortgage and unsecured consumer lending.

Many assumed the advent of cryptocurrencies heralded a revolution in finance. The truth may be that crypto's overall impact on the financial services industry is more evolutionary than revolutionary.

The populist backlash from the Great Financial Crisis turned the financial regulatory world upside down. Fifteen years later, that populist force is still informing how people vote, how financial regulation is crafted and how regulators see themselves.

Federal regulators need to mandate full disclosure of total costs for international money transfers, including all exchange rate markups, and to allow nonbanks access to the Fed's payment system.