Banco Bradesco said it will use the acquired bank to expand its investment offerings in the United States.

Big banks may have found a way to lower needed reserve levels; with Brexit delayed, Goldman will hold off on expansion.

Profitability improved significantly last year for banks with less than $2 billion of assets, but not because of anything they did. Some troubling trends lurk beneath those big gains too.

Tandem Bank has approval from the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance as its aims to become the state's first new bank since the financial crisis.

Aging tech systems have become a "pain point" in financial services, and VC firms have backed newcomers trying to push aside traditional vendors and win over banks and credit unions.

Community banks in the state have struggled to attract the funds to meet surging loan demand, but that could change now that a new law has made it easier for them to accept government deposits.

If credit unions hope to capture America's largest potential consumer base, they're going to have to do a better job of explaining their value proposition.

MidFlorida Credit Union has agreed to buy the $730 million-asset Community Bank & Trust of Florida in Ocala.

The National Credit Union Administration and the Small Business Administration have established a program to boost SBA lending by credit unions, which was very light last year. It is sure to irk bankers, who have raised competitive concerns.

The Yankton, S.D.-based institution can now serve 18 counties across two states.

The state should overhaul its Department of Business Oversight, but proposals to create a statewide financial protection bureau miss the mark.

The Money Anxiety Index, a measure of consumer saving and spending habits, has started rising off a 50-year low. The economist who created it says that means another slump is nearing, and that banks should use the intel in pricing deposits and making other decisions.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed steps to ease Home Mortgage Disclosure Act requirements, just days after announcing it was retiring a platform to let users analyze raw mortgage data.

The Honolulu-based credit union said its earnings dropped by more than 37% from a year earlier.

Online banking and self-service options for customers free branch workers to focus on business development. Employees will need to step up to the challenge or they'll be left out.

Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union wants to eventually add eight counties to the four it currently serves.

Here are seven startups that received multimillion-dollar venture capital investments in recent weeks to accelerate the development of banking products and services.

Give Lindsay Lawrence a big job to do and she just might find a way to make it even bigger.

Paul Taylor previously served as CEO of Guaranty Bancorp in Denver, which was sold in January to Independent Bank.

Shelley Seifert had been the bank's chief operating officer.