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Beacon Community Bank, which opened in January, raised $34 million through a private placement.

Lenders are taking steps to reduce exposure to fluctuations in oil prices, including getting tougher in demanding that drillers use commodity hedges.

State Bank popped up on the Houston company’s radar eight years ago, but management waited until now to strike.

The Providence, R.I., company said that Citizens Access will open for business nationwide next quarter.

The Renton, Wash., company, which has acquired or opened nine branches since 2015, has filed a shelf registration to raise the funds through the sale of various securities.

The Houston company had been an interested, but selective, acquirer before announcing this year's biggest bank deal.

Marcus unit will start taking deposits in the U.K. next month; the bank uses the technology to complete a trade finance letter of credit for Cargill.

The investment bank agreed to buy Business Bancshares in St. Louis.

Artificial intelligence will reshape the job landscape at banks; people still want to open accounts at a branch; Mick Mulvaney stacks CFPB bench with political appointees; and more from this week's most-read stories.

Capitol Federal Financial has mostly relied on mortgages throughout its history. Its acquisition of a commercial lender will change that.

Readers weigh in on the role banks play on gun control, chime in on Wells Fargo’s latest brand campaign, slam the idea of postal banking and more.

Mobile has been a boon for Cardlytics, which says more than half of the deals consumers choose now come from the mobile channel.

With the regulatory relief bill set to become law soon, some congressional Republicans are already calling for additional rollbacks to the Dodd-Frank Act. There’s one thing they should keep in mind: Community banks had a hand in the crisis too.

The irony of the explosive growth of mobile P2P is this: As consumers get more comfortable with paying one another through mobile devices, they're thinking of P2P less as a service that one should find within a bank's app.

Mutual of Omaha Bank's purchase of Synergy One Lending will add reverse mortgages to its product line.

Rebeca Romero Rainey, who has been on the job for less than a week, has already slammed postal banking and pressed for more regulatory relief. In a Q&A, she discusses her plans to foster innovation, tackle succession issues and encourage more banks to stay independent.

The agency’s rule restricting short-term loans ignores state discretion and harms needy borrowers, argues Louisiana’s attorney general.

The prepaid card issuer is attracting customers who are more inclined to seek it out through the app store.

Wells Fargo must pay $97 million to home mortgage consultants and private mortgage bankers in California who didn't get the breaks they were entitled to under the state's stringent labor laws.