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Investors are growing worried about lackluster loan growth this year at community banks.

The Treasury Department’s long-awaited report on modernizing the Community Reinvestment Act was heavy on glittering generalities but light on specifics, which explains why the report punted the real job of making needed reforms.

Loan growth and higher yields helped offset a 20% increase in expenses at the Arkansas bank in the first quarter. Meanwhile, it warned of one-time rebranding costs to come in the third quarter.

Bank of America is investing heavily in videoconferencing at unstaffed branches, Citigroup is experimenting with gamification and Union Bank’s PurePoint Financial is going entirely paperless.

Longtime payments industry executive Kim Crawford Goodman has been named president of card services at Fiserv, where she will oversee the payments and ATM services, including credit and debit processing.

The 106-year-old bank is looking to raise $90 million, with plans to use half of the funds to redeem outstanding preferred stock.

Sapphire Ventures and Cervin Ventures were involved in the Series B funding round, bringing their total of support to $31 million for Mountain View, Calif.-based Punchh.

The bank says its partnership with Lender Price will help streamline and simplify its home loan process.

Albany, N.Y.-based Health Employees Federal Credit Union will merge into State Employees Credit Union in June if regulators approve the deal.

By reducing, or completely removing, paper-based billing through automation, your company can drastically reduce its environmental impact, writes Colleen Ciak, head of eAdoption at Billtrust.