The Southeast regional bank plans to use the deal's sizable proceeds to pay down wholesale borrowings and restructure its securities portfolio. Numerous banks have made similar moves in recent months.

American Banker's latest innovation report found that strategic corporate transactions are important for most banks but offer distinctive challenges. Fintech acquisitions give banks maximum control but can be hard to integrate if the buyers don't approach the process thoughtfully.

The card network integrated its data-sharing technology into products from Zip, FIS and JPMorgan Chase as potential regulations loom on the horizon.

Three months after the instant payment network went live, users and former Fed staffers say the rollout is going as expected. But the key to wider use depends on banks and their customers figuring out what to do with it.

The Alabama bank reported that check fraud resulted in operational losses of $135 million between April and September, including $53 million last quarter. The entire banking industry has been beset by higher levels of check fraud since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Dallas company, which is in the midst of a four-year business overhaul, is facing a margin squeeze in the coming quarters. But even as analysts express skepticism, company executives aren't budging from the profitability goals they set two years ago.

Banks already share consumers' transaction data with fintechs, mostly through data aggregators, and often grudgingly through screen scraping. The proposed 1033 regulation could give more control to consumers, better data access to fintechs and a competitive edge to big banks over smaller ones, some observers say.

Though home mortgage issuance has slumped in line with originations, new potential bank capital rules and increased consumer debt consolidation could boost activity for these two subsets in the secondary market.

The Federal Reserve Board and state regulators signed off on the $1 billion deal, paving the way for a late 2023 closing. The approvals were significant given that other large combinations have run into trouble.

Three years removed from the Black Lives Matter protests, banks have not fulfilled their promises to help close the racial wealth gap.