The Cincinnati, Ohio-based bank delivered third-quarter earnings that mostly met expectations, even as it took a $200 million blow to credit.

The Buffalo-based bank said Thursday that the paring of its CRE loan book, which has nearly halved in volume over the last three years, may be near its inflection point.

The Canadian bank plans to sell the branches, which are mostly in the Midwest and Great Plains, to First Citizens Bank in North Carolina. At the same time, it plans to build 150 branches over the next five years in markets with longer-term growth prospects.

Amid a surge in bank mergers, Citizens CEO Bruce Van Saun said the Providence, Rhode Island-based bank is largely focused on organic growth. "It would have to be a pretty high bar for us to go down that path," he said.

CEO Bill Demchak said there seemed to be "some confusion," after PNC's stock fell some 4% on Wednesday.

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Comerica Bank in Dallas has been around since before the Civil War. But the banking crisis of 2023 tamped down on its access to low-cost funding, and the problem persisted until it finally decided to sell itself.

The superregional bank inked its merger agreement with FirstBank just two weeks after it saw the first draft of the agreement.

Citigroup's Banamex received an offer that would put full control of the Mexican franchise in the hands of Grupo Mexico.

Fifth Third announced it plans to buy the Dallas bank in a $10.9 billion transaction.

The CardWorks subsidiary has officially taken over Ally Financial's Ollo credit card portfolio, ending a five-year dance between the two companies that first had Ally buying CardWorks for $2.7 billion.

The fintech Versatile Credit lets merchants provide point-of-sale credit to consumers in all FICO ranges.

Though small banks have a durable customer base in the small-business sector, the decades-long consolidation trend will likely speed up, according to a new report from Morningstar DBRS.

Houston-based Prosperity will pay $269 million in stock for Southwest Bancshares in San Antonio. The sale comes on the heels of the death of Southwest's founder and chairman.

BayFirst Financial in St. Petersburg shuttered a national small-dollar 7(a) loan program in August. Now the $2.4 billion institution, which has been one of the nation's most active SBA lenders over the past decade, is making a clean break from the business.

The Olympia, Washington-based acquirer expects the all-stock acquisition of Kitsap Bank's holding company to close in the first quarter of 2026.

The Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, community bank agreed to acquire 1st Colonial Bancorp in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, in a $101 million deal that would help deepen its presence in greater Philadelphia.

The $18.6 billion-asset Muncie, Indiana-based company agreed to pay $241 million in stock to acquire First Savings Financial Group and expand into the Southern end of the Hoosier state.

Citi had been courting wealthy investors to buy a chunk of Banamex that could be built into a controlling stake after a plan to sell the Mexican unit outright fell apart,

QNB's proposed $41 million deal to acquire The Victory Bancorp in Limerick, Pennsylvania, is set to create a community bank with $2.4 billion of assets.