Merchant acquirers are racing to sell "integrated payments," or a one-stop shop for transaction processing and myriad other services that stores can tie to the point of sale. But small to medium sized businesses are not often the targets for these efforts.

The New York company, which plans to raise about $40 million by going public, could also use the funds to make acquisitions.

More than half of the company's loans and deposits would be in the Atlanta area after it buys Resurgens Bancorp.

For the second time this year, Appleton, Wis.-based Fox Communities CU will absorb a Green Bay-based credit union.

The Florida-based bank has multiple facilities in Florida, along with lending offices in Massachusetts and Michigan

Despite the digitization of transactions, customers still need personal bankers. But financial institutions must adapt to specialize in problem-solving instead of sales.

Customers Bancorp is weighing two cash offers and other options for BankMobile after Flagship Community Bank was unable to raise the capital needed to buy the unit.

KeyCorp is acquiring HelloWallet, a personal financial management product it has offered its bank customers since 2015, from the investment research firm Morningstar.

The company was set to sell a 24% stake in itself to buy two Tennessee banks but has restructured the arrangement to avoid a potential conflict cited by a regulator.

Processors are investing billions of dollars to build huge menus of tools for retailers that may no longer have the time to work with multiple vendors. These transformations are years in the making, and each investment or acquisition has the potential to dramatically change the competitive landscape.

The combined CU will operate under the banner of The Partnership FCU.

Aggressive restructuring moves and stock buybacks are giving CIT time to remold itself, but it will need to show core-banking growth to stave off calls for the company to sell itself.

The OCC recently gave Sterling a "satisfactory" rating and said the New York bank had addressed some concerns by the Fed that had leaked to the public and raised questions about its pending M&A deal.

Citigroup has agreed to sell its fixed-income analytics and index business, which includes the nearly 30-year-old Yield Book platform, for $685 million.

First Data hopes to enhance its ability to integrate payments with other merchant services by acquiring the processor and technology company CardConnect, which is already one of First Data's largest distribution partners.

The bank is the second failure in Illinois so far in 2017. Seaway Bank was closed in late January.

Canada's big banks are pursuing wholesale banking, capital markets and select M&A opportunities across the border to hedge against a slowing mortgage market and other economic concerns on the home front.

The NCUA aims to give credit unions access to in-person hearings with its governing board. Such an opportunity is lacking at federal bank regulators.

Murphy Capital Management in Gladstone, N.J., focuses on high-net-worth individuals, businesses and nonprofits.

Thanks to the Federal Reserve's unwinding of post-crisis policies, the next wave of mergers will be driven in part by a drop in deposits.