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Russia's largest bank is reinventing itself as a technology company and selling its own consumer electronic devices. Its chief tech officer says the moves are all about developing broader, more enduring customer relationships that the bank controls fully.

The bank has agreed to pay $158 million for Standard AVB Financial, which has 17 branches in Pennsylvania.

The moves are intended to offset a protracted period of historically low interest rates and expectations of higher credit costs in 2021.

A nationwide branch network remains a calling card for the entire industry, while also exemplifying the movement's cooperative spirit.

A deal between Dime Community and Bridge Bancorp was delayed, and nearly derailed, by the coronavirus outbreak. Here’s how the two sides kept it on track.

The company's new agreement with Envestnet Yodlee to share customers' account data over secure pipes is its 17th pact with aggregators and other fintech firms.

The company, which expressed concerns about the validity of some of the loans it bought, renegotiated a lower price and protections from the seller involved in the deal.

New Enterprise Bank would focus on venture capital and private equity firms that are involved in investment between China and the San Francisco area.

The company's software can now be used to handle personal loans, credit cards and specialty-vehicle loans.

The company has been experimenting with ways to recruit more women and minorities, including a program to hire professionals who had left banking. But CEO Charlie Scharf’s reference to “a very limited pool of Black talent” for important jobs may make it harder for Wells to meet inclusion goals.

The central bank must engage core processors, community banks and The Clearing House if it wants to move quickly on building out its FedNow system.

The company also found a buyer for its portfolio of equipment finance loans as it tries to clean up credit and refocus on middle-market lending.

Partnering with the account-opening software firm Mantl, the New Jersey bank created a CD campaign that helped fund its Paycheck Protection Program lending.

The bank worked with TravelBank, a fintech, to offer virtual cards and an app that automatically generates expense reports.

The bank worked with TravelBank, a fintech, to offer virtual cards and an app that automatically generates expense reports.

The North Carolina bank deployed Finxact's new technology, which runs on Amazon Web Services, to make Paycheck Protection Program loans and will use it next to offer business savings accounts and CDs.

Lenders should be subjected to tough reviews of their readiness for economic threats posed by severe weather, required to disclose risks lurking in their portfolios and perhaps forced to set aside extra capital, a government study recently recommended.

The company will shutter a fifth of its locations, while reinvesting some of the savings in its digital banking platform.