Flagstar shareholders approved a plan to merge its holding company into the bank; Huntington tapped a new chief auditor, along with two new business leaders; First Foundation hired a new chief credit officer; and more in this week's banking news roundup.

The enhanced Supplementary Leverage Ratio has for too long wrongly penalized low-risk market-making activity by U.S. banks. Targeted reforms come at a time when liquidity is about to be severely tested.

The Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank reported net income of $1.45 billion for the third quarter and earnings per share of $1.04, which beat analysts' forecast of $0.99 per share.

America's second-largest bank revised its net interest income target upward after what analysts called a "clean" third quarter.

Treasury laid off all of its Community Development Financial Institution Fund staff on Friday, with the reduction in force notices saying that the department plans on abolishing the fund.

After a quarter in which Goldman Sachs beat Wall Street's expectations, CEO David Solomon said he was seeing a "meaningful improvement" in the macroeconomic environment.

The San Francisco-based banking giant reported a 9% annual jump in quarterly profits. It also made official its appointment of CEO Charlie Scharf as chairman.

Former City National CEO Kelly Coffey has a new venture in wealth management; Erin Siegfried is Northwest Bancshares' new chief legal counsel and corporate secretary; Flagstar Bank secures OCC approval to merge its holding company into the bank; and more in this week's banking news roundup.

The regional bank has launched a digital student banking center that's part of a broader strategy to focus on relationship-building.

Bank of America's O'Neill talks about innovation in banking and what's next for retail customers.

A former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. argues that community banking in the U.S. is being slowly strangled by regulations that place heavier burdens on small banks than on giant ones.

A number of banks experienced major increases in 7(a) lending activity during SBA's recently completed fiscal year, as program-wide loan volume topped $37 billion for the first time.

Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr is warning small banks about the growing threat from fraudsters' use of AI-generated deepfakes. But he also says AI may be able to help community banks fight fraud more effectively.

The failure to reauthorize protections for information exchange under the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act has created a dangerous gap in our protection against cyber criminals and hostile state actors.

In a new survey, 28.4% of community banks said that regulation represented an "extremely important" risk, down from 44.1% last year.

The Fairmont, West Virginia, bank is taking a $7.6 million hit to rid itself of $73 million in long-duration, low-yielding securities, though the sale of its payments subsidiary the week before cushions the blow.

The demise of the banking industry in the U.S. has been incorrectly predicted for generations. The truth is that the industry never dies, because it never stands still.

The superregional bank ranked at the top of surveys from Javelin Strategy and Keynova Group on mobile banking features for the second consecutive year.

As the likelihood of conflict in the Taiwan Strait grows, banks ought to be beefing up their sanctions compliance teams to deal with a huge increase in activity. Unfortunately, they are doing exactly the opposite.

Many banks lowered the interest rates they pay on certificates of deposits and high-yield savings accounts in September, capitalizing on the Fed's 25-basis-point cut.