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The bank is piloting fingerprint-reading cards that work with existing payment terminals. Its goals are to strengthen security for large transactions and to inform future deployments in other markets.

ICBA Bancard will help link community banks to instant payments through a partnership with real-time services hub provider Finzly.

Though the Paycheck Protection Program is winding down, the Small Business Administration has prolonged several other pandemic relief programs. Community banks can help local businesses sort through their options.

Lakeland is paying $244 million for 1st Constitution Bancorp. The combined bank would be the fifth largest by deposit market share in New Jersey.

Rosilyn Houston will succeed William Wolf, who is retiring this summer from Banco Santander’s U.S. unit.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen signaled she’ll prod multilateral development banks to rein in their lending for fossil fuels, part of a global effort to make the financial system greener.

Income share agreements, which allow college graduates to repay tuition financing as a percentage of their future income, have come under fire lately from consumer advocates for questionable marketing and other potential legal violations. Some hope a partnership between a Virginia bank and an ISA provider will give the product more legitimacy, while others worry it just masks risks for borrowers.

The economic forces driving dealmaking will overcome any regulatory risk posed by the president's call for stricter vetting of bank merger applications — especially among community banks, experts say. The White House push could even nudge some executives to cut deals sooner.

The card issuer, which is offering its customers a chance to purchase non-fungible tokens created from a recent performance by the singer SZA, is betting that the digital art-trading phenomenon will become more mainstream.

The San Jose, California, bank will take a hit to second-quarter earnings to settle claims arising from an alleged Ponzi scheme.