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A few months ago bankers were more hopeful than confident about an end to depressed demand for business credit. Now CEOs at Huntington, Fifth Third, Mercantile Bank and other companies are touting strong fourth-quarter loan growth, burgeoning pipelines and local job creation as reasons for optimism.

Loans to car sellers plummeted earlier in the pandemic due to chip shortages that hampered vehicle production. But supply improvements since last fall have fueled the start of a rebound.

Mary Madden joined the New York credit union in 1995 and has been its chief executive since 2002.

A new service speeds payments by using artificial intelligence to predict which buyers are most likely to pay.

The Alabama company continues to explore buyouts of add-on businesses, part of a strategy that has already helped recoup dollars lost as a result of reforms to its overdraft practices.

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center has created a forum to let technology vendors provide security updates to their bank clients. Whether more steps need to be taken is a matter of debate.

The number of U.S. bank branches dropped by a record 2,927 last year as lenders both large and small sought ways to cut costs and keep pace with a digital transformation sweeping the finance industry.

The merger of FVCBankcorp and Blue Ridge Bankshares, which has faced criticism from student borrower advocates, would have created a $5 billion-asset bank. The deal was delayed last year after the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency raised concerns.

Christopher Del Moral-Niles, who has been at the Wisconsin bank since 2010, is credited with helping the company raise capital, exit the Troubled Asset Relief Program and improve its ratings profile.