Paul Davis

The deal will create a nearly $500 million-asset bank.

The application for Riverside Bank of Dublin comes just six months after another group opened a bank in a nearby market.

The acquisition of Farmers & Merchants Bank created a bank with more than $200 million in assets.

OUR Community Bank would focus on small-business loans with an emphasis on underserved Hispanic and Latino communities in South Florida.

The factors that drive small banks to accept acquisition offers and the impact those decisions have on their communities must be better understood, according to the Fed’s Michelle Bowman and the FDIC’s Jelena McWilliams.

Julieann Thurlow says Reading Cooperative Bank in Massachusetts is well positioned to help immigrants and millennials. Technology is crucial to serving both groups, she says.

Jelena McWilliams told community bankers that policymakers should be a resource for banks trying to adopt new technology.

More community bankers now say that cost of funds, not regulatory expense, poses the biggest threat to profits, according to a new survey.

Warsaw Federal will keep its name and charter after joining First Mutual Holding in Lakewood, Ohio.

An initial review determined that lax oversight at Enloe State Bank allowed for the origination of more than 100 allegedly fraudulent or fictitious loans.