The Dallas-based institution has hired Dan Sheehan, a veteran banker and the former CEO of Professional Bank, to head the effort that will include opening a branch in Palm Beach County later this year.

Local Government Federal Credit Union is postponing its separation from State Employees Credit Union, which has shared its technology and footprint for decades, to establish its own physical presence.

More customer insights and Spanish support are on the horizon for the team developing Fargo.

Years of consolidation have damaged competition in the banking sector. Regulators should be more, not less, restrictive about approving mergers.

An analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence shows that 37 of the 50 largest U.S. banks reported increases in total assets after a series of regional lender failures.

The seller announced the delay to give it time to solicit more votes in favor of the deal. It plans to push a June 13 meeting to next month, when shareholders will decide whether to approve the transaction.

After shares dropped in the aftermath of recent failures, most banks demonstrated resilience and investors started to buy back into the sector.

Paulding County, northwest of Atlanta, is Georgia's second-fastest growing county, but after years of consolidation just one community bank has a branch there.

Ally Financial, TD Bank and Park View Federal Credit Union are experimenting with custom settings so users can tweak color contrast, font styles and more.

The Providence, R.I.-based bank has been scaling down its indirect auto lending program since last year.

Beach Cities Commercial Bank is set to open in Southern California next week. Rising interest rates and consolidation in recent decades have created more opportunities for investors to form new banks, experts said.

Bankers and a key government supervisor say the downfalls of multiple regional lenders reminded regulators that traditional M&A is better for the industry than failed-bank-deals.

Nusenda's agreement to buy Western Heritage Bank would be its first bank acquisition and the first such combination in the state.

It would be a mistake for regulators in the U.S. and Canada to delay the rollout of rules supporting open banking. Fears of bank runs as a result of customer access to their own financial data are overblown.

Whitney Stewart Russell, President of Digital Solutions at Fiserv, speaks with Chana Schoenberger, Editor-in-Chief of American Banker, about how turmoil in the industry and the economy is playing out as banks work to become more digital.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued only 20 enforcement actions in 2022, but some observers say the enforcement numbers belie the results that director Rohit Chopra is getting from other ways of holding companies accountable.