Community Banking

First Western in Colorado and Coastal Financial in Washington are the latest banks to disclose plans to go public.

Several leaders have retired after spending years preparing their banks for the regulatory milestone.

Fountain City Fintech, a program planned by NBKC Bank, would be one of the first fintech incubators formed by a community bank.

The company will pay $48 million for four branches and $230 million in loans.

The Dallas company expects to report a higher loan-loss provision after the loans, which include two shared national credits, deteriorated in the second quarter.

Ruoff Financial will make its first push into banking with the purchase of SBB Bancshares.

The National Credit Union Administration is set to vote on revisions to its field-of-membership rule, even as it's entangled in a legal dispute with the American Bankers Association over the rule.

The Connecticut company will have nearly $48 billion in assets after it buys First Connecticut Bancorp.

Cost-cutting will be important, but for its acquisition of CoBiz to be a winner, BOK Financial will have to prove it can boost fee income as it has with smaller acquisitions.

The deal for the Denver commercial lender joins a growing list of large acquisitions being announced in competitive urban markets.