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Dogwood State Bank and Community First Bancorp plan an all-stock deal to create a $2.2 billion bank, technology firm Fiserv announces a partnership with the National Hockey League's New Jersey Devils, former Texas secretary of state will join Cullen/Frost's board and more in our weekly banking news roundup.

The $1 billion-asset institution shuttered its mobile banking platform for digital asset purchases on Wednesday, following a consent order from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency received in October of last year.

PayPal hopes to demonstrate its coin's utility by using it to take a stake in a company called Mesh.

Some of private credit's biggest lenders argue such trading would undermine this advantage by forcing them to constantly value the assets on a marked-to-market basis, rather than at their discretion, inviting volatility.

Brandon Milhorn, the new CEO of the Conference of State Banking Supervisors, used the platform offered by his first major speech to sound an alarm against one-size-fits-all solutions emanating from Washington. "The pendulum has swung too far in the direction of federal regulatory uniformity," Milhorn argued.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued an alert Thursday on avoiding business relationships with sanctioned Israeli settler groups in the West Bank, an effort that comes as the White House is pushing sanctions on foreign actors involved in destabilizing the region.

The FHFA's Home Loan bank report is that rare thing you never see in the nation's capital anymore — a balanced plan on a complex issue that could have lasting impact on a difficult problem.

A day after the regional bank's stock tumbled on tough fourth-quarter results and some austerity moves, observers debated whether management just needs time to build enough capital to catch up with growth or if it is still too overexposed in multifamily lending.

The Birmingham, Alabama bank cut down its workforce across divisions as higher interest rates put pressure on its business.

With tougher capital requirements looming, a number of regionals including U.S. Bancorp, Huntington and Santander are using these new instruments to share risk with nonbank investors and lighten their capital load. Experts point out the pros and cons.