Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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The seemingly expensive acquisition of Aquesta Financial Holdings is the cost of expanding in North Carolina's largest city.
May 27 -
Huntingdon Valley Bank in Pennsylvania and First Savings Bank in Indiana are among the banks extending their relationships with software providers to make small-business lending more efficient after the Paycheck Protection Program is phased out.
May 26 -
The Indiana company is buying 14 branches that Huntington Bancshares is divesting as a condition of its deal to buy TCF Financial.
May 26 -
The fintech's investors include the actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom and Robert Downey Jr.
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Cypress Trust in Palm Beach is poised to pull off a rarity: the conversion of a wealth management firm into a community bank. It’s simply another way to take advantage of the ongoing melding of the two financial services sectors, CEO Dana Kilborne says.
May 22 -
Under a plan signed into law in March, the agency will first target direct loans that it has made to socially disadvantaged farmers. Guidance that will affect small banks that have made government-backed agricultural loans is due in 120 days.
May 21 -
The pandemic was certainly a factor, but the Mississippi company says its decision to concentrate interactive teller machines in drive-through lanes and retrain employees who appear on-screen made a big — and potentially lasting — difference.
May 21 -
The National Credit Union Administration changed course late last year and proposed changes that would in effect give members more time to resolve overdrafts. However, consumer activists and even some credit unions say the proposal falls short.
May 20 -
Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown told acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu that the cryptocurrency firms approved to operate national trusts under prior agency leadership “seek access to the benefits of a bank charter” without meeting certain regulatory standards.
May 20 -
The Massachusetts bank, which traditionally In contrast to its typical strategy of supporting low-income housing, the invested $500,000 in CEI Ventures’ Coastal Ventures V fund to support small businesses in disadvantaged communities.
May 20 -
How digital capabilities are supporting small business operations amid disruption
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The target is among the top-performing banks in Utah and the only bank in a five-state region with assets between $3 billion and $10 billion.
May 19 -
Peeyush Nahar, who also spent 14 years at Amazon, brings both Big Tech and startup experience to a consumer-banking unit that has lost several senior leaders in recent months and faces challenges common to entrepreneurial divisions within large organizations.
May 18 -
Instead of injecting cash into Commonwealth National Bank, Regions Bank is taking a more targeted approach: providing funding for the community development financial institution to hire a commercial banker.
May 18 -
The agency issued a request for information to gather feedback about how institutions facilitate use of cryptocurrencies and other kinds of assets, and what factors regulators should weigh as they develop supervisory policies.
May 17 -
On Dec. 31, 2020. Dollars in thousands.
May 17 -
On Dec. 31, 2020. Dollars in thousands.
May 17 -
American State would be the largest bank buyout for Equity, which has acquired 17 banks since 2003.
May 17 -
The legislation would bar firms that receive government contracts from discriminating against firearms companies. Smaller banks have quietly dropped their opposition in hopes of gaining more municipal bond business.
May 17 -
In letters to regulators and lawmakers, bankers and their trade groups argued that deals like Vystar Credit Union's proposed acquisition of a small Georgia bank could result in less community development lending and declines in federal tax receipts.
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