Heritage Trust Federal Credit Union will buy the bank's deposits and assume its liabilities.

Helping their customers adjust to digital banking and pay crushing bills are just a couple of ways community bankers are reaching out.

The Arkansas bank is selling its two branches in the state to Merchants & Marine Bancorp and FEB Bancshares.

The deal will create an $11 billion-asset banking company with operations in a number of markets around New York City.

Neil Dauby, the Indiana company's chief commercial banking officer, will have oversight of all operations, reporting directly to Chairman and CEO Mark Schroeder.

Jelena McWilliams explains the agency's decision to enlist the help of tech innovators to modernize a reporting process that the coronavirus epidemic has exposed as outdated.

Mesaba, which is also based in Minnesota, is the parent of American Bank of the North and Lake Bank.

Investar Holding called off its deal to buy Cheaha Financial in Alabama.

CB Financial Services, Mercantile Bank and Nicolet Bankshares said they would shutter a total of 12 branches.

Southwest Bancshares in San Antonio will have assets of $1.5 billion when it absorbs two affiliated banking companies in nearby cities.

The online TV giant will start by moving $25 million to a fund that invests in minority-run financial institutions that serve low-income communities and depositing $10 million into Hope Credit Union in Jackson, Miss.

Bank consolidation has been stagnant since the pandemic hit, and the outlook for the rest of the year is bleak.

The company said it had cut 20 positions and found a way to shed 35,000 square feet of office space by the end of 2020.

Eric Luse, who co-founded the Luse Gorman law firm, helped Community Bank Shares of Indiana create the first MHC in the early 1990s.

The Loan Source, the nonbank lender buying the Paycheck Protection Program loans, has similar deals in place with other lenders.

Arbor Bancorp and FNBH Bancorp said the pandemic had created uncertainty about the regulatory process for securing approval for the deal.

The movement encouraging investment in banks run by African American management teams gained huge momentum in recent weeks, but a spat between one of those lenders and an activist investor highlights the potential downside.

Bankers’ criticism that the expanded designation would bolster the largest credit unions is misguided.

⁠John Corbett says building scale, lowering costs and strengthening technology offerings have become more critical for banks to stay competitive.

Business owners are changing banks at three times normal levels, a trend researchers attribute to their difficulty in obtaining emergency loans. If the forgiveness stage of the Paycheck Protection Program proves arduous, that rate could climb much higher.