Corporate governance

The New Jersey bank is looking to raise offensive capital just months after its deal to be sold to Investors Bancorp was terminated. Investors was tripped up by regulatory concerns tied to Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money-laundering compliance.

Delmar will buy Liberty Bell Bank in New Jersey, which had survived a debilitating six-year battle for control with a former CEO. Liberty Bell also suffered from corporate theft and a check-kiting scandal.

Various departments will be realigned or consolidated and staff will shrink by attrition in the agency’s first large-scale restructuring since 2003.

The Rhode Island bank plans to build out its fee income capabilities, expand C&I lending in the Southeast, renegotiate vendor contracts and take other steps to produce expense cuts and revenue enhancements of at least $90 million.

The Cincinnati company reaped the benefit of the latest round of interest rate hikes, as a higher net interest margin and lower costs helped overcome the drop in lending.

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Distribution based on deposit, loan relationships with the credit union in the first half of 2017.

The Cleveland company, once criticized for an initial six-year forecast, now believes it will only take four years to rebuild its tangible book value.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sharply criticized the new acting head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as part of a report Thursday detailing how industry executives and lobbyists have joined the Trump administration.

The Portland, Ore., company outlined a plan to boost its return on tangible common equity to between 13-15% by 2020. More details will be provided by fall, executives said.

Baby boomers may have been overtaken as the largest generation of consumers in America, but the older demographic still presents plenty of business opportunities for credit unions.

The regional bank reported an 8% gain in fee income and trimmed costs amid 1% loan growth.

KS Bancorp initially chided First Citizens for its aggressive moves before deciding to mull the offer over.

Second-quarter profit improved modestly at Northern Trust as severance costs offset growth in trust and institutional services.

The Dallas company is in the middle of a dramatic turnaround after scaling back on energy loans and slashing expenses. Still, followers of the company seek assurances that the discipline will endure.

A yearlong effort to slash costs boosted profits at the Dallas company.

Announcing that a formerly free product or service will now cost money exposes banks to reputational risk. But the process doesn’t have to end in customers getting angry.

Why choose a former Visa chief to run a custody bank? Because to survive long term, Bank of New York Mellon will have to look more and more like a payments company.

Scharf, a former Visa CEO and JPMorgan executive, succeeds Gerald Hassell as leader of Bank of New York Mellon.

Plenty of CUs make mistakes in their strategic planning sessions, but -- even more alarming -- there are a number of credit unions that don't do any strategic planning at all.