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.

While CUs welcome the changes to the appeals process, the merger transparency rule is sure to raise a few eyebrows.

Anchor Bancorp in Laney, Wash., lowered its expectations in the face of impatient investors and buyers’ concerns about antitrust, credit quality and other issues.

West Denver Community CU will be absorbed by Denver Community Credit Union, following losses totaling approximately $20,000 in 2015 and 2016.

Royal Bank of Canada got an earnings boost from its U.S. capital markets business and its ownership of City National Bank in Los Angeles, helping to offset softer growth at home.

The $3.2 billion-asset company is making a bigger push into northern Indiana with its agreement to buy Lafayette Community Bancorp.

Regulators have hinted that they're warming up to the idea of startups, but industry veteran George Groves is raising money to buy an existing bank because he fears the approval process would take too long.

The Tennessee bank has agreed to pay nearly $85 million for Capstone Bancshares in Alabama.

Union Bankshares is poised to become a nearly $12 billion-asset bank in a state that lost most of its midsize institutions in the 1990s and early 2000s.

The merger is expected to be completed by year-end, and the combined institution will have assets of more than $1.2 billion, serving more than 105,000 members.

The company agreed to buy Commerce Bancshares, which has three branches in Boston.