IPOs

A former chief financial officer at Hanover Bancorp is trying to separate the roles of chairman and CEO as part of a sweeping demand for change.

Coastal Financial in Everett, Wash., said that it could be active in M&A with capital from its IPO and that it has already identified several possible targets.

First Western Financial in Denver could use the roughly $31 million it is hoping to raise to pay off debt and redeem preferred shares.

First Western in Colorado and Coastal Financial in Washington are the latest banks to disclose plans to go public.

The Israeli-owned company, which spent the last half-decade addressing stagnation, is open to acquisitions or going public.

Adyen NV, a Dutch payments processor whose clients include Netflix Inc. and Spotify Technology SA, more than doubled in its trading debut in Amsterdam.

Brand Group in Georgia was mulling a public offering but it opted to test the waters as a seller first. That decision led to one of the biggest bank deals announced this year.

The California company ended up selling 1 million more shares than it had originally planned to offer.

The fintech wants to facilitate loans for elective surgeries, auto repairs and jewelry purchases, but regulatory uncertainty — at the state and federal levels — casts a cloud over its business model.

The firm will pay $110 million to settle charges it didn’t control traders; hedge fund executive says he was wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct.