The Lafayette, La., company also reported its third-quarter earnings, which fell by more than 41% from a year earlier as it recorded several one-time charges.

The Illinois company, four months removed from its last bank acquisition, just announced the biggest purchase in its history. Alpine Bancorp. will add low-cost deposits and scale to Midland States' wealth management business.

The CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset Management and American Banker’s Most Powerful Woman in Finance shares advice about dealing with tricky clients and colleagues.

The Trump administration has moved forward on a plan to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but Joe Biden appointees could take steps to slow or stop their release from conservatorship.

The new capital framework for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is a prelude to letting the mortgage giants potentially retain all their earnings. But efforts to privatize the companies could face pushback from the Biden administration.

The median credit score for new mortgages and refinancings climbed to 786 during the third quarter, its highest level in more than two decades, according to a report from the New York Fed.

A blizzard of new rules and regulations strikes at the fundamental strengths of the U.S. banking system, and will have negative impacts on both American consumers and businesses.

The failures of several midsize banks last year demonstrated shortcomings in the deposit insurance framework and lit a fire among policymakers to take it on. But for some reason that fire went out.

False transaction disputes and other individual-level financial fraud cost the industry billions. It's time to join forces and even the odds.