Union Bankshares in Virginia sold Shore Premier Finance, a business it inherited from a recent acquisition.

Peapack-Gladstone has agreed to buy Lassus Wherley & Associates, which has offices in New Jersey and Florida.

The Oakland company has hired Colleen Atkinson, a former manager at HSBC, to oversee its new professional banking business line.

Commercial real estate is their bread and butter, but many banks are scaling back in this vital loan category. Here’s why.

Nelnet’s planned bank would be an online enterprise focused on gathering deposits and making private student loans.

As branches evolve to become more education-oriented, banks are taking their cues from retailers, hotels and other service sectors.

Digital Federal Credit Union developed a platform to accelerate fintech development that helps to bake in a valuable partnership between groups that might otherwise be competing with each other.

The measure, which has been compared to the EU’s new consumer privacy rules, grants Californians new rights over how companies collect and use their personal data.

Banc of California in Santa Ana will cut roughly 9% of its workforce as it looks to trim $15 million in expenses.

Buying a startup or running an accelerator program isn’t enough to help banks truly prepare for the coming digital age.

Spirit Community Bank would be the first new bank in North Carolina since 2009.

U.S. Bank is firmly committed to voice assistant technology, but remains cautious about enabling all forms of money movement via verbal commands.

Readers react to Capital One restricting data access, opine on whether or not the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's structure is unconstitutional, weigh in on Rep. Maxine Waters as Financial Services Committee chairman and more.

The bank's Finn app is attracting users by removing complexity from mobile banking.

It usually costs small businesses a lot of time and money to calculate their own value. TD Bank is offering them a free digital tool that performs the task quickly.

Sponsoring so-called pitch competitions helps lenders gain Community Reinvestment Act credit and gather deposits.

A new survey from J.D. Power shows that customers of digital-only banks, such as Capital One 360 and Ally Bank, are less satisfied with their banks' mobile channels than they were a year ago. Declining satisfaction among younger consumers is driving that trend.

FNS Bancshares has agreed to buy Catoosa Bancshares in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., in all-cash deal.

SmartFinancial has agreed to buy Foothills Bancorp for $36 million. It would be SmartFinancial's fifth bank acquisition since 2012.

Disruptive upstarts. Glitches galore. Open banking adoption. Financial institutions are being challenged on multiple fronts — here’s a look at how they’re coping.