The American Bankers Association has called for an end to the government shutdown, saying it has prevented customers from securing loans and threatens even more damage.

Robotic process automation is said to have a high return on investment, but adopting it on a large scale has proven challenging, especially at community banks.

Readers weigh in on pushback by appraisers to a new regulatory proposal, consider credit card issuers' role in the gun debate, respond to recent credit union mergers and more.

The North Carolina company agreed to pay $38 million in cash for First South Bancorp.

Shareholder approval, usually a formality, is far from guaranteed when an acquirer's share price is sliding.

Affirm, which for six years has plied its trade as a point-of-sale lender, wants to move deeper into banking by offering a high-rate savings account.

Nicolas Kopp, head of N26 in this country, explains how the company plans to spend a chunk of the proceeds on its expansion here and add to the intensifying competition among fintechs.

Silver River Community Bank is the fifth de novo in Florida to apply with the FDIC in the last three years.

Associated Banc-Corp in Green Bay, Wis., said Wednesday that it will close 17 branches as part of a previously announced deal to buy 32 branches from Huntington Bancshares.

Its data-driven financial management services for workers who live paycheck to paycheck — and a contract with Walmart — have attracted executives from Facebook, Slack and elsewhere as well as a major investment from the head of Box.

Tom Meuser, the chairman of El Dorado Savings in California, said he could not get the necessary two-thirds backing from his shareholders because of recent declines in bank stock prices.

The 10 startups will receive initial investments, mentoring and training as part of the ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator.

Saul Van Beurden will have oversight of both technology and information security and will report to CEO Tim Sloan.

Deposit premiums for bank mergers, which topped 10% in 2018 for the first time in years, are expected to keep rising as competition for cheap funding intensifies.

In venturing into what's normally a province of large banks, nbkc in Kansas City, Mo., discovered innovative tax-management and other products that it could offer to its own customers or sell to other banks.

Issuers should take seriously critics’ claims that they need to monitor the sale of guns more closely, before policymakers force the issue.

George Scharpf had been the New Jersey bank's leader since 1981.

The credit union service organization based in Florida has returned more than $500 million in patronage dividends since 1994.

The $128 million acquisition will provide First Financial with its first branches in Kentucky and Tennessee.

CEOs on the hot seat. Banks fighting to stay independent. Comfortable players ripe for disruption from Amazon and others. It is shaping up as a riveting year.