Steven Retzloff, the company's president, will succeed George Martinez in January.

Hometown Financial, which completed three acquisitions this year, is considering branch openings for a push into the city.

The Raleigh-based credit union hit its latest milestone just three years after reaching 200,000 members.

The New York company will enter Suffolk County after it buys Empire Bancorp.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette FCU, originally chartered to serve newspaper employees, has received regulatory approval to merge into a larger institution.

Midsize players like BankUnited, BOK and Fulton Financial plan to rely on selective M&A, catering to niches overlooked by big banks, aggressive recruitment of commercial lenders and other strategies to stimulate revenue growth.

The Tennessee company has agreed to buy First Advantage, which specializes in financing manufactured housing purchases.

Retail technology provider Standard Cognition is putting its quick-rising valuation to work to stockpile tools as the checkout-free market enters a more competitive phase.

Centreville Bank will pay $116 million in cash for PB Bancorp.

The company agreed to buy Steuben Trust for $107 million.

The Columbus, Ga., company had been counting on increased volume to offset a squeeze in net interest margins.

The $32 million merger will create a bank with nearly $1 billion in assets.

Mastercard plans to acquire loyalty and marketing company SessionM to help its merchant clients build their brands and grow their businesses.

Ellen Alemany said that CIT's deal for Mutual of Omaha Bank will immediately lower the bank's deposit funding by 20 basis points. She also reiterated that the acquisition would make CIT more attractive to potential buyers.

A majority of banks globally may not be economically viable because their returns on equity aren’t keeping pace with costs, the consultancy said in its annual review of the industry released this week.

The deal, which is expected to close in mid-2020, would create a company with nearly $18 billion of assets and more than $14 billion of deposits.

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Count Citizens Financial’s Bruce Van Saun among those who think interest rate cuts could halt by mid-2020. The key, he says, is to focus on delivering services customers are willing to pay fees for and to skillfully reprice deposits until then.

The companies say they're working hard to complete their deal this year — including spending millions on retention payments and other items — but there's no guarantee how quickly regulators will make their decisions.

The deal will create a nearly $500 million-asset bank.