While red states like Florida have embraced the cryptocurrency industry, officials in New York and Illinois are taking action on Democratic Party priorities such as diversity and climate change. Here's a look at some hotbeds of innovative policymaking.

Kinecta Federal and Hawaii State Federal are launching smaller, high-efficiency branches and creatively managing real estate to better meet members where they are as well as cater to a younger demographic.

Perennial No. 1 Oregon Bancorp, which operates as Willamette Valley Bank, boasts strong sources of fee and interest income, sound underwriting and vibrant geographic markets. It’s a formula shared by many on American Banker's list of the 200 highest-performing publicly traded small banks.

A hearing on the pending BMO-Bank of the West merger will be held in July, and another on TD's proposed acquisition of First Horizon is set for August. The announcements indicate that regulators have decided to hold such hearings more often.

Only about 31% of the bank’s shareholders voted Tuesday in favor of a nonbinding “say on pay” resolution. The harsh verdict followed a one-time award of $52.6 million in stock options to keep Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon on the job for five more years.

The Federal Reserve will begin shedding as much as $47.5 billion of assets monthly starting June 1 to tamp down on inflation. But doing so could undermine the banking industry’s preferred source of liquidity.

Consumers are still the driving force of payments innovation — even in business use cases, according to honorees from this year’s Most Influential Women in Payments who spoke at American Banker’s Payments Forum.

The bank and insurance company continues to battle its rivals over their use of technology USAA claims it invented.

Online-only banks that place a premium on personalized customer service receive higher satisfaction ratings, according to a new survey by J.D. Power.

The point-of-sale lender is teaming up with Fiserv to streamline its onboarding process for merchants. It's part of Affirm's effort to differentiate itself as more banks and fintechs enter the highly competitive buy now/pay later market.

A clear, cross-agency regulatory framework is needed to help the industry embrace the promise of this new financial services paradigm.

Completion of U.S. Bancorp’s $8 billion acquisition of MUFG Union Bank, originally slated for June, has been pushed to the second half of 2022, the seller’s parent company says.

The former JPMorgan Chase executive will will replace Jim Hays, who is retiring.

The Federal Reserve’s forceful moves to fight inflation are resetting expectations about how quickly banks will need to start raising their deposit rates.

The Birmingham, Alabama, bank is moving its head of consumer banking, Scott Peters, into a new role as chief transformation officer to build new technology infrastructure.

The Cincinnati bank was targeted for the second time since 2018 when an armed man took hostages at a branch in suburban Chicago this week. Security experts say traditional robbery training may have to be expanded as active-shooter situations become more common.

David Reilly oversaw cybersecurity efforts at the bank for years and has learned how employees with access to sensitive information can be flipped, conned or extorted into cooperating with hackers.

Tom Anderson currently serves in a compliance role overseeing personal banking and wealth management at Citi. He will succeed Mary McNiff, who is moving into a new position at the $2.4 trillion-asset bank.

Consumer complaints surged in March, shortly after the North Carolina bank completed a core technology conversion to bring together BB&T and SunTrust. Truist is still dealing with the gripes, which involve delayed access to cash, difficulties using debit cards and excruciatingly long wait times.

The banks have reportedly facilitated trades of Russian sovereign and corporate debt. Two Democrats in Congress want more information, saying that the dealings, though legal, may undermine efforts to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for the invasion of Ukraine.