First Busey plans to close the $236 million cash-and-stock acquisition by the middle of this year.

Load times, architecture and keywords are important to a functional bank website. But marketing the brand – via content and graphics – is just as important to wooing new customers and retaining existing ones.

James Hobson is resigning to become the CEO of Attune, a new company in the commercial insurance sector.

With another $60 million in writedowns, BBVA Compass has taken $90 million in goodwill impairment charges related to its $117 million acquisition of the neobank Simple.

The unit of Customers Bancorp considers the visualization and animation features of its new app, which will show users if their money is dwindling or growing and where it's going, special enough to apply for a patent.

The president’s vow to impose a 20% tax on Mexican imports could make life harder for the Citigroup-owned unit, which is Mexico’s second-largest bank.

Home improvement lender EnerBank USA expects half of its loans will be originated on the app it built *in-house*, which promises near-instant approvals.

Whether donating bikes or giving grants to help local schools, credit unions are doing their part for the next generation.

The delay has analysts worried that Customers Bancorp will also postpone the sale of BankMobile, which was slated to take place during the first quarter.

Traditional banks may need to think twice about putting off higher rates on CDs and other deposit products. That’s because freer-spending online banks are adding deposits faster than they are, and more Fed rate hikes are expected to fuel that trend.

Dorothy Savarese and Rebeca Romero Rainey now chair two important trade groups … Mary Lynn Lenz, Patti Husic and Terry Jorde weigh in; Barclays CEO Jes Staley talks hiring diverse leaders and how to keep them; and more.

They are not a number to be pushed through an algorithm. They are people, each with unique goals and stories.

Over the last five years, the credit union also saw a 66% rise in membership, 204% increase in auto loans and a 26% uptick in real estate loans.

United continues to extend a far-flung operation that includes branches in Chicago, Denver and Florida.

Arkadi Kuhlmann, the founder and CEO of the neobank Zenbanx who pioneered branchless banking at ING Direct, explains why he stopped pursuing a bank charter and made a deal with Social Finance.

The American Bankers Association has added a feature to its national crime database to help banks monitor and analyze ATM skimming.

Usama Ashraf, the marketplace lender's new chief financial officer, will oversee finance activities and its capital markets function.

Credit unions are finding more and more inventive ways to do the right thing for the communities they serve.

Spark ATM expects the deal will help expand services offered to local banks and retailers in South Africa and other markets in the region.

The acquisition should allow the San Francisco-based online lender SoFi to fulfill a long-standing goal: offering a deposit account to its young, upwardly mobile customers.