National City Corp. of Cleveland has acquired Wayne Bancorp. Inc., a company with 23 branches in northern Ohio.
The fill-in acquisition was announced Tuesday. National City, which paid $180 million in cash for the Wooster, Ohio, company, plans to convert Wayne's systems to its platform by mid-December. National City bought Allegiant Bancorp Inc. of St. Louis in April and Provident Financial Group Inc. of Cincinnati in July.
The combination of two Pacific Northwest banks was supposed to create a regional powerhouse, but rising deposit costs have stung. CEO Clint Stein says he's "laser-focused" on making Columbia a top performer again.
A set of panels discussing minority depository institutions and digitization found that cost is a significant challenge to minority depository institutions, especially in the core processing space.
The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a 30-page guidebook on managing affiliate risks. The report builds on formal guidance issued last year.
The efforts, which respond to President Biden's October executive order on AI, aim to improve synthetic content detection and improve the trustworthiness of AI models.
Tighter merchant connections between Square and Cash App helped Block produce stronger-than-expected results during the first quarter, while Jack Dorsey said the firm will launch its first remittance product later this year leveraging decentralized finance.
In talks with OCC officials, "it became obvious that we would not gain near-term approval given their recent experience with multifamily and CRE positions," FirstSun CEO Neal Arnold says. The companies announced other revisions to their deal, too.
