Bankers have conversations daily with clients, public officials and friends who don’t necessarily see the benefits that banking locally provides.

Automated teller machines have come a long way since Barclays rolled out the world’s first ATM at a branch in north London 50 years ago. Here’s a look at some of the milestone moments and key innovations in ATM technology over the past five decades.

Thanks to the Federal Reserve's unwinding of post-crisis policies, the next wave of mergers will be driven in part by a drop in deposits.

Readers weigh in on a proposal for encouraging small bank installment loans, a firm that uses AI to reduce false alarms, what security improvements are needed for sharing customer data, and more.

Amid all the bad news this year among taxi-medallion lenders, banks are trying to renegotiate loan terms behind the scenes, and regulatory changes could prop up collateral values and the competitiveness of taxis.

David Rainbolt, who has been the company's CEO since the early 1990s, has handed the reins to a pair of longtime deputies. Rainbolt will stay at BancFirst as its executive chairman.

Anchor Bancorp in Laney, Wash., lowered its expectations in the face of impatient investors and buyers’ concerns about antitrust, credit quality and other issues.

The Arkansas company is selling more than $300 million in stock a year before its DFAST test in June 2018.

Banks in the U.S. should get ahead of potential open banking regulation by building application programming interfaces now. A preemptive strategy will give banks more flexibility.

Scholarships, celebrations and other ways credit unions are giving back to the communities they serve.

The Treasury Department significantly raised an estimate for how much the exemption will cost the government over the next decade, giving bankers some hope that their complaints are finally being heard.

The Spanish bank is opening its APIs to outside developers as Bank of America tests a new data-sharing model with aggregators.

Europe is debating whether to ban screen scraping, a practice that fintechs count on as a last resort. Innovation is at stake.

Andy Maguire faces a challenge: tasked with upgrading HSBC's digital-banking systems, he has discovered that customers are twice as likely to trust a robot for heart surgery than for picking a savings account.

The $3.2 billion-asset company is making a bigger push into northern Indiana with its agreement to buy Lafayette Community Bancorp.

Regulatory restrictions on market entry can shield banks for only so long from problems like those faced by traditional retailers. But financial institutions can take these steps to stay competitive in the ever-digital world.

The role of branches in consumers' lives may be changing in the digital age, but brick-and-mortar locations are here to stay. To adapt, Citizens Bank has begun a "10-year process" of retrofitting its branch network.

Brian Moynihan won praise from the Wells Fargo CEO for his handling of subprime, legal and other post-crisis issues during his first years as Bank of America's top executive.

Automated teller machines have come a long way since Barclays rolled out the world's first ATM at a branch in north London 50 years ago. Here's a look at some of the milestone moments and key innovations in ATM technology over the past five decades.

Regulators have hinted that they're warming up to the idea of startups, but industry veteran George Groves is raising money to buy an existing bank because he fears the approval process would take too long.