John Reosti

Stephen Steinour, the head of Huntington Bancshares, cited strong projected growth in auto sales and an improving housing market as good signs for the Midwestern bank's fortunes in 2015.

With dueling legal opinions on NCUA's authority to implement a multi-tiered risk-based capital rule, the regulator could be facing a lawsuit.

Five Star Bank is the latest financial institution to settle claims that it avoided lending to minorities. More redlining cases can be expected, industry experts say.

Industry stakeholders are hunkering down to go through NCUA's revised proposed rule on risk-based capital, but at first blush, response has been largely positive, even though the two primary CU trade groups still believe the rule simply isn't necessary, revised or not.

Ten financial institutions, including four banks, will accept the new IDNYC card as a primary form of identification for new accounts. Community advocates hope the move will help more immigrants and unbanked individuals use banking products.

Under pressure from Congress and credit unions, the NCUA significantly dialed back its proposal to institute risk-based capital requirements, raising the threshold of which institutions must comply and softening other provisions.

Under pressure from Congress and credit unions, the NCUA significantly dialed back its proposal to institute risk-based capital requirements, raising the threshold of which institutions must comply and softening other provisions.

WASHINGTON — Credit unions aren't the only ones waiting anxiously to see what the NCUA's revised risk-based capital rule will look like.

Ted Peters likes to build things and he does not like retirement. The veteran banker will soon solicit outside investors for a fund that he hopes will amass $100 million to pump into promising community banks.

The National Credit Union Administration is due Thursday to unveil a second version of its risk-based capital rule after pressure from lawmakers and the credit union industry forced it to scrap its first attempt.

By targeting construction lending, 1st Financial Bank USA aims to expand beyond its hefty concentration in credit card loans while entering a business segment that has shrunk mightily since the financial crisis.

Leaders of smaller banks optimistic about the growth prospects of small-business loans in 2015, but they are equally worried about increased competition from larger banks, nonbanks and credit unions.

Rick Kelly, vice president of strategic communications at Triad Strategies here, tells his clients sunshine is usually the best fix for a crisis situation.

The loss of a thumb drive containing credit union members' personal information by a NCUA examiner is now the subject of an investigation by the agency's inspector general.

Michael Scudder stands to get a full year of benefits from three recently completed deals. The big question, however, is whether First Midwest will pursue a transformative deal to cross over $10 billion in assets and offset a heightened regulatory burden.

First Guaranty Bancshares had hoped to raise more than $60 million but a dip in oil prices spooked potential investors even though just 3% of the bank's loans involve energy companies.

The former Astoria chief, who died Sunday, took Astoria from a sleepy mutual to the fifth-biggest publicly traded thrift in New York. Engelke was also know for freely speaking his mind while maintaining strong relationships with fellow bankers.

The Defense Department's decision to bar service members from using the military's discretionary allotment system will reduce Farmers Capital's annual process revenue by nearly $1.5 million.

Farmers Capital Bank in Frankfort, Ky., said a change in the rules governing allotments by active-duty service members will shave more than $800,000 off its bottom line next year.

Trevor Burgess, CEO of C1 Financial, brings an investment banker's irreverence to the normally decorous business of community banking. But he's produced a record that backs up his brash talk.