As part of its U.S. market strategy, the U.K.-based neobank is offering New York City commuters cashback on public transit fares when they open a new account.

Horizon Bancorp said it will raise about $200 million in capital to fund a major balance-sheet restructuring. The move would dilute existing shareholders, and the company's stock price dipped on Thursday.

The Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank, which is focusing its growth push in the Southeast, is also planning to renovate 300 existing offices as part of an effort to attract more mass-affluent customers.

The faster timelines for completing bank mergers this year reflects a transformed regulatory environment under the Trump administration. In several cases, deals have closed just a few months after they've been announced.

The deal brings together a banking core provider and a digital banking software platform to offer an end-to-end tech product for community and regional banks.

The expansion-minded Hampton Roads-based lender announced plans to acquire Dogwood State Bank just weeks before its plans to close a deal for a Virginia-based competitor.

Matt Mullet, the company's longtime chief financial officer, said he's spent the past year getting accustomed to the people side of management.

Banks want to reclaim their position as the central node in the customer relationship by charging fintechs and data aggregators for access to permissioned customer data. How the legal questions about this are resolved will be a telling moment for all concerned.

Medallion Financial CEO Andrew Murstein sees more growth on the horizon for the New York lender's fintech banking operation, which saw activity spike in the first half of the year.