The company will pay $142 million for Carolina Alliance Bank three months after buying NewDominion in Charlotte, N.C.

The app allows customers to pick and choose the right private banker for them.

Using software from Eastern Bank spinoff Numerated, Bremer Bank says it will be able to approve automated loans to farmers within a minute.

Some are relying on a national, digital strategy. Others say the right balance of costs and growth comes from more traditional means such as targeted branch openings and out-of-market expansion.

Maria Tedesco's duties will include oversight of commercial, business and consumer banking at Union Bank & Trust.

Kanas, who returned to the banking industry as part of the recapitalization of the failed BankUnited, will relinquish the company's chairmanship at the end of this year.

Varo Money just received conditional approval from the OCC. Now it has to raise capital, create a CRA plan and get a go-ahead from the FDIC.

The Los Angeles company will also gain its first branches in Nevada after completing the $467 million acquisition.

For each of the last three years, Choice Financial has unveiled an elaborate practical joke on April 1 as part of a quirky marketing campaign.

With the large storm threatening coasts in Virginia and the Carolinas, some banks are planning to shutter branches for the rest of this week.

Happy State Bank and others use rewards, rather than punishments, to encourage employees to stay vigilant and catch fraud and cybersecurity issues.

A family-owned community bank in Oklahoma is testing a Spotify-like service by fintech Meed that allows customers to pay $9.95 a month to obtain digital banking services.

The proposed rule is another step in the agency's implementation of a regulatory relief bill that President Trump signed into law in May.

Consumer advocates and academics recently removed from the Consumer Advisory Board said they were "disappointed" that the board will be reconstituted with fewer members.

PNC's Todd Barnhart, incoming Consumer Bankers Association chair, says the group is concentrating on the impending process of modernizing the Community Reinvestment Act among other issues that do not require action on Capitol Hill.

Casey Crawford, CEO of Movement Mortgage, bought First State Bank in Virginia last year. He has since injected more capital into the bank in an effort to reinvent it.

A community bank in Pennsylvania made up its own holiday of sorts — including a product demonstration and a 1982 DeLorean reminiscent of "Back to the Future" — to encourage bank customers to try out new fintech features.

A companywide survey at First National Bank Alaska found that employees wanted more training and development. This is how the bank responded.

On Jun. 30, 2018. Dollars in thousands.

On Jun. 30, 2018. Dollars in thousands.