Cap Markets

The nation's largest private student lender plans to use $30 million of its anticipated tax-cut windfall to speed up its diversification plan and strengthen its digital capabilities.

A group of big financial institutions wants to use the blockchain to make it easier and less costly to track home mortgages packaged into securities.

Endeavor Bank, which raised nearly $27 million, will become the second new bank to open in California in the past year when it debuts next week.

Liberty will add a branch in Kansas City, Mo., along with three locations in nearby communities.

Blue Lion Capital, which had a recent request for a board seat rejected, plans to nominate multiple people to run for the board at HomeStreet's next annual meeting.

Ameris, which was operating under a regulatory order when it agreed to buy Atlantic Coast, agreed to pay more money if it failed to complete the acquisition by mid-2018.

The company is gaining heft in Michigan's Upper Peninsula with its $34 million purchase of First Federal of Northern Michigan.

The company agreed to buy First Priority Financial for $82 million in stock.

The Tennessee company has been buying banks in smaller markets and college towns where it rarely has to compete with financial giants.

The bank plans to stick to its multiyear plan to pay out at least $60 billion in capital to shareholders even after booking a larger-than-forecast charge of $22 billion to adjust to the new tax regime