The Spanish bank's VC arm added two companies focused on artificial intelligence to its portfolio this week. Both firms promise to help banks connect better with customers.

The Arkansas bank bought C1 Financial in Florida and Community & Southern Holdings in Georgia last year.

The Treasury Department will take a huge hit when Cecil Bancorp sells its bank, while 1st Mariner Bank in Baltimore will see its equity stake completely wiped out. Cecil opted for bankruptcy court when it was unable to resolve an impasse over its trust-preferred stock.

The former Triumph Capital Advisors doubled its business by acquiring Doral Bank's CLO assets; Dodd-Frank’s “skin in the game” regs spurred its spinoff as a vehicle of the deep-pocketed Pine Brook.

Severn said it believes Mid Maryland Title Co. will complement its existing dealings in mortgages, commercial banking and commercial real estate.

The challenge of juggling security and convenience is escalating as banks realize digital channels are for sales as much as they are to display account balances.

Sponsorships, celebrations, education and other ways credit unions are giving back.

The region is responsible for a third of all bank sellers — and more than half of the industry's overall deal volume.

The bank received conditional court approval to create a settlement fund of at least $142 million to cover 11 class actions filed after its fake-accounts scandal.

Energy sensors will let JPMorgan Chase master-control everything from office temperatures to sprinkler systems in an attempt to preserve the scale of its branch network but lower the costs.

Expansions, donations and 500 pounds of crawfish.

ESSA Bank & Trust has successfully worked with a federal program that helps former prisoners in some eastern Pennsylvania towns get back into society, and it plans to expand the program to the Philadelphia market.

Community banks are less likely to close branch locations than their larger counterparts. But those branches should mix technology with the homespun local flavor customers have come to expect.

N26 will soon add insurance service to go along with its mobile payments, and credit and savings accounts.

The new ATMs cut fraud risk by minimizing password-exposure, but it’s unclear whether large numbers of consumers are ready to change five decades of inserting a plastic card to get cash.

There is too much customer and regulatory inertia for banks’ business model to become irrelevant overnight. The real danger is banks will fade out of the picture over time.

Online and mobile banking are essential elements in 21st-century financial services, but there’s more to banking than digital transactions.

The new ATMs cut fraud risk by minimizing password-exposure, but it’s unclear whether large numbers of consumers are ready to change five decades of inserting a plastic card to get cash.

Green Bancorp has pivoted from the troubled energy-lending market to SBA loans, which are appealing to more small banks because they can be sold at a premium and are getting more support from Washington.

As you'll see from this list, regional banks are doing a better job bolstering their reputations than the big banks are, according to the 2017 American Banker/Reputation Institute Survey of Bank Reputations.