Corporate governance

The Canadian bank plans to sell the branches, which are mostly in the Midwest and Great Plains, to First Citizens Bank in North Carolina. At the same time, it plans to build 150 branches over the next five years in markets with longer-term growth prospects.

PNC CEO Bill Demchak said Wednesday that regulatory processes and enforcement actions take up half of the time that the company's board spends together. Those rules are on deck for a makeover.

The megabank's multiyear effort to simplify its business model and improve its risk management is starting to pay off in the form of more consistent profitability and improved returns, CEO Jane Fraser told analysts.

The regional bank has launched a digital student banking center that's part of a broader strategy to focus on relationship-building.

The superregional bank inked its merger agreement with FirstBank just two weeks after it saw the first draft of the agreement.

The Accountability Board, a three-year-old-group focused on corporate governance issues, said the bank shouldn't have backtracked on a longstanding policy separating the chairman and CEO roles.

Fifth Third announced it plans to buy the Dallas bank in a $10.9 billion transaction.

As consumers use digital subscriptions for everything from streaming movies to cooking meals, financial apps are taking different approaches to helping their customers navigate recurring payments. Should banks get in on the action?

For a newly launched RIA, its website is one area in which less can be more — but only if the firm's online HQ puts the right visitors on the path to conversion.

The Toronto-based bank announced enterprise-wide and business-specific revenue and expense targets, almost exactly one year after it was hit with more than $3 billion in fines and an asset cap for money-laundering-related blunders.

The Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, community bank agreed to acquire 1st Colonial Bancorp in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, in a $101 million deal that would help deepen its presence in greater Philadelphia.

QNB's proposed $41 million deal to acquire The Victory Bancorp in Limerick, Pennsylvania, is set to create a community bank with $2.4 billion of assets.

AIB was on the verge of collapse when it was bailed out by the Irish government in 2010. Why did its turnaround, which hit a key milestone earlier this year, take so long?

The global fintech has said it will invest more than $500 million in the US in the coming years, and it expects to create hundreds of jobs.

The Denver-based bank-holding company's pending acquisition of Vista Bancshares in Dallas is an opportunity to expand into key fast-growing Texas markets and deepen its talent bench, CEO Tim Laney told analysts.

As President Trump calls for scrapping quarterly earnings reports and switching to a six-month schedule, industry observers wonder whether the time saved would be worth the potential loss of transparency.

First Northwest Bancorp in Port Angeles has selected an Everett, Washington-based competitor's president to serve as its new top executive.

The Charlotte-based megabank announced that it had appointed two business leaders to be co-presidents of the bank, and elevated its chief financial officer to serve as executive vice president.

Bill Demchak said at an industry conference that PNC effectively "bought Colorado" with its recently announced plan to acquire the $27 billion-asset FirstBank.

The Columbus, Ohio-based regional bank announced plans to acquire Dallas-based Veritex Financial in July. On Monday, a Huntington executive called the deal a "springboard" for additional organic growth.