Three months after the merger of equals between Pinnacle Financial Partners and Synovus Financial was completed, the company reported strong hiring trends. Executives say hiring success is key to the bank's growth strategy.

First Citizens finally pulls the plug on the failed bank it acquired in 2023. Also, prediction markets are keeping regulators and lawyers busy.

The Cleveland-based regional bank plans to acquire Clearwater UK, a middle-market investment banking advisory firm. The transaction marks Key's first entry into the Western European market.

The McLean, Virginia-based company continues to tout its willingness to invest in longer-term opportunities. Executives declined to provide a shorter-term expense forecast, and its stock price fell in after-hours trading.

The South Carolina-based bank agreed to pay more than $100 million to acquire a longtime competitor in fast-growing Hall County, Georgia.

A consulting and M&A advisory firm presented six prospective sellers to 17 buyers, with striking results for any advisory teams tapping into a frothy M&A market.

The annual Diamond Consultants advisor transition tracking study identified the winners and losers of 2025. But it also noted how quickly things can change.

Slash Financial, a fintech originally founded for sneaker resellers, closed a Series C funding round and launched an AI assistant for digital-native business customers.

CEO Tim Spence said folding in the acquired bank has gone to plan so far, but the biggest point of risk is still on the horizon.

The Charlotte, North Carolina-based regional bank said it's been executing on its strategic priorities and is consequently setting a new, higher target for a key profitability metric.

The Cleveland company's merger-and-acquisition pipeline is bursting with deals, said CEO Chris Gorman, but geopolitical concerns are causing some clients to "slow-play" their transactions.

The credit card lender, which is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings April 23, followed its release of an agentic commerce kit by agreeing to acquire Hypercard, a Sam Altman-backed company that uses AI to support expense management.

The deal between OpenAI and personal financial management startup Hiro Finance, the second of its kind for the AI company, will lead to the sunset of the Hiro platform next month.

During the bank's first-quarter earnings call, Jane Fraser dismissed a recent report that Citi is entertaining the idea of buying a large U.S. regional bank.

In a strategic shift, the Walnut Creek-based company has tapped a trio of former PacWest executives to fill its top three management positions.

Closing its Brex acquisition adds a corporate-focused fintech and new agentic commerce tools to an already considerable consumer payments division.

Santander U.S. and Webster Financial are doing integration work in advance of their pending merger, including naming business-line leaders, the banks said in separate notes.

Hope Bancorp's acquisition of a business that serves Japanese companies should complement its historic focus on Korean business owners.

The bank's planned $142 million acquisition of Affinity Bancshares comes as war-related uncertainty appears to have slowed the industry's appetite for mergers.

Goldman Sachs Chief Legal Officer Kathryn Ruemmler received an 11% pay hike last year, bringing her total compensation to $25 million; U.S. Bank promoted Toby Clements to chief operations officer; Klarna is expanding its forward-flow and whole-loan sale deal with Elliot Investment Management to $2 billion; and more in this week's banking news roundup.