Neptune Financial, an online business lender, will help the global bank reach commercial customers it was missing before and could ultimately be a $1.5 trillion opportunity, an HSBC executive says.

Members of District 8 Highway Employees CU have approved a proposal to become part of Metro Credit Union.

Richard Marotta, who became Berkshire Hills' CEO after his predecessor's abrupt resignation, says his top priorities are squeezing more profit from existing operations and improving corporate culture.

The Indiana company will pay $68 million for Citizens First.

The company will shutter the offices it inherited when it bought EverBank in 2017 and focus on lending to existing customers through digital channels. U.S. Bank will assume the leases on about 25 properties.

The company will close a dozen branches, including eight in Colorado.

The Janesville, Wis.-based institution is set to move into a new downtown location in 2021.

The company disclosed that it paid $146 million for servicing rights associated with $13 billion in mortgages.

Bankers are eager to expand there through M&A, de novos or other means, encouraged by strong employment and disruption created by recent consolidation.

Critics of the merger need to recognize the competitive threat banks face from big tech and other innovators.

Fairwinds Credit Union in Orlando is set to buy Friends Bank, the third time this year a Florida-based bank has agreed to sell to a credit union.

The Illinois company will pay $46 million for a bank that is a fraction of its size.

Fairwinds Credit Union's deal for Friends Bank marks the third time this year that a Florida bank has agreed to be sold to a credit union.

A new initiative aims to help small credit unions survive and thrive, but a plethora of trends are working against them.

Bridgeview Bancorp floated its name with 14 potential buyers, but it only attracted serious interest once it promised to divest a mortgage business that recorded a double-digit decline in fee income last year.

The Rhode Island bank is one of several regionals that have snapped up dealmaking boutiques in recent years to bolster noninterest income.

Navient Corp. shares surged after Canyon Capital Advisors said it could boost a $3.1 billion takeover offer that was rejected by the student-loan servicer.

The company has agreed to buy Preferred Bancshares in a deal set to close by mid-2019.

"You can't meet customers at the headquarters," CEO Kevin Cummings tells his senior executives.

HomeStreet Bank will attempt to sell its stand-alone mortgage business and portfolio of servicing rights, a move that comes amid growing pressure from an activist investor to exit home lending and concerns about declining demand and regulatory challenges.