New Jersey

The company will enter an affluent New Jersey county and a key New York market with the $209 million deal.

A New Jersey jury has put banks and other businesses on notice about their liability for incidents involving clients who mistreat employees in the workplace.

Can Charlie Scharf fix what ails Wells Fargo? How will Kelly King and Bill Rogers manage the integration of the biggest bank merger since the early 2000s? And will New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy be able to beat back opposition from the banking industry and make good on his promise to create a state-owned bank? Here are 11 leaders to keep an eye on in 2020.

The New Jersey company will pay $63 million for the parent of Victory State Bank.

Industrial Bank CEO Doyle Mitchell has spent countless hours in New York since his bank bought the failed City National in November, meeting with existing customers and plotting his growth plans.

The company will pay $94 million for a bank with operations in New Jersey's Somerset and Morris counties.

The New Jersey company paid $336 million for all stock owned by Blue Harbour Group.

Christopher Maher, who has announced seven bank deals since 2015, says a stable rate outlook will help buyers and sellers crunch merger numbers.

The company will enter three counties in its home state after it buys Roselle.

PiNG Bank, which would be based in Jersey City, is being proposed by former bankers at Cross River Bank, Citigroup and Bogota Savings Bank.

Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order Wednesday establishing a board that would come up with a plan to create a public bank in New Jersey.

Most consumers, even those in rural communities, have become accustomed to digital services. That's something certain community banks better face up to, panelists at the ABA conference said.

Recent closings could portend a stiffer regulatory stance on capital adequacy and risk.

The FDIC sold the operations of City National Bank of New Jersey, a minority depository institution, to Industrial Bank in Washington, D.C., in the year's fourth bank closing.

NCUA financial metrics don't illustrate the way these institutions have changed consumers' lives for the better.

Credit unions in the Garden State are frequently at the bottom of national rankings for key financial metrics. Further consolidation is likely needed to help bolster these results.

Once the Pennsylvania Credit Union Association and the New Jersey Credit Union League complete their merger, the group will go by CrossState Credit Union Association.

Intense competition for deposits and a growing need for scale are spurring more New Jersey banks to seek out buyers.

The company will pay $113 million for a commercial lender based in its backyard.

Christopher Maher is kicking the tires on an "acquisition of size" that would propel the New Jersey bank across the $10 billion-asset mark.