SeaComm Federal Credit Union of Massena, New York, and St. Lawrence Federal Credit Union of Ogdensburg, New York, are planning to merge by the end of the year.

The results came a day after it emerged that Canada's second-largest bank doesn't anticipate regulators will approve its deal for Memphis, Tenn.-based First Horizon Corp. by May 27, as it previously projected.

In three years as a subsidiary of $3.2 billion-asset MVB Financial, Chartwell Compliance has tripled its headcount and revenues, MVB CEO Larry Mazza said Wednesday, after announcing Chartwell's sale to New York-based Ankura.

The merger of Columbia and Umpqua has created a $52 billion-asset bank rooted in the Pacific Northwest. CEO Clint Stein said the company has room to expand in California, Arizona, Colorado and Utah.

A group including Dr. Bernice King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter, and former SBA Regional Administrator Ashley Bell says the deal struck Tuesday to acquire Holladay Bank & Trust in Utah marks the first time Black investors have acquired a non-Black bank.

The company has agreed to acquire the parent of Peoples Bank in a deal expected to close in the third quarter.

Executives at Wayne Savings Bancshares and Main Street Financial grew progressively more comfortable with the idea of a deal during six months of talks, Wayne Savings CEO James VanSickle says.

Attorney General William Tong is asking state lawmakers to grant his office more power to investigate consumer complaints after problems marred M&T Bank's integration with People's United Financial.

The Maryland bank is merging with Linkbancorp in a nearly $168 million deal that would create a $3 billion-asset company. The transaction comes just months after OceanFirst Financial and Partners nixed their merger plan, citing regulatory delays.

The arrangement is designed to benefit commercial clients of both banks that operate on multiple continents. The companies reached the arrangement as part of the recent sale of Bank of the West.

Buckeye State Bancshares near Columbus said it would buy cross-state rival Rockhold Bancshares. Only six such deals were announced in January, making it the slowest first month of a year for M&A since the financial crisis.

After months of speculation, Truist Financial has agreed to sell 20% of its insurance brokerage subsidiary to the private-equity firm Stone Point Capital for $1.95 billion. The deal was touted as a way to provide capital for expansion and increase earnings over time.

The five-year, $50 billion agreement with community groups includes a pledge to open 25 branches in marginalized communities. TD is seeking regulatory approval for its acquisition of Memphis, Tennessee-based First Horizon.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., specifically called out acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu, saying that he "needs to learn how to say no to anticompetitive bank mergers."

Acquiring First Miami Bancorp would give the Greenville, South Carolina-based buyer three branches and nearly $900 million of deposits in the Southeast's biggest banking market.

In a speech on the central bank's regulatory agenda for the year, Federal Reserve Board Gov. Michelle Bowman said the merger-and-acquisition review process could benefit from added transparency.

As the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency rethinks its bank merger framework, the standard metric for determining a bank's deposit concentration in a merger review is increasingly irrelevant, officials say.

The two banks are now targeting May 27, three months later than their previous goal. The transaction, which would create a top-six U.S. bank by asset size, was originally expected to be completed last fall.

The California Reinvestment Coalition is one of the groups asking the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to withhold its approval unless substantial conditions are imposed. The merger would create a $29 billion-asset bank with locations in nine states.

Goldman Sachs Group raised $5.2 billion for a private equity fund that will buy early-stage companies that are typically small in size, a sign of confidence in an industry that's confronting strong headwinds.