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Tom Dierdorff, formerly a Regions executive, will lead the Georgia bank's push into the lucrative but competitive market.

Four of the six bankers joining Nashville-based Pinnacle Financial Partners worked in Truist Financial’s aerospace, defense and government contracting unit.

Scott Earl will step down from his leadership role at the trade group at the end of June.

The tech entrepreneur has been increasingly focused on Bitcoin, a key growth area for the payments company he co-founded.

Its goals are twofold: to be a financial intermediary between buyers and sellers on the Provenance blockchain and to use the technology to bring speed and efficiency to loans and other products.

Some Senate Democrats are mulling a revised proposal that would require banks and credit unions to report account data tied only to business, not personal, income. Despite the change and attempts to minimize compliance costs, industry officials remain opposed.

The credit union has promoted Timothy Mislansky to lead the organization. He succeeds Doug Fecher, who announced his retirement earlier this year.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. might need to borrow money from the Treasury Department to manage the orderly liquidation of a systemically important bank. But if Treasury can’t legally issue more debt, that money may not be available.

College athletes can now profit from their name, image and likeness, and some local lenders have been quick to sign them on as spokespeople. But it's still unclear whether these young sports figures will raise the financial institutions' profile enough to justify the cost.

Farmers and the banks that lend to them are prospering again after several lean years, thanks to high crop prices and government subsidies. But sagging loan demand, inflation and what some observers see as a bubble in land values are fueling concern that the revival will be short-lived.