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The Senate bill, designed to close a loophole in the state's interest rate cap, must still be reconciled with a similar measure that was passed by the Ohio House of Representatives.

A former chief financial officer at Hanover Bancorp is trying to separate the roles of chairman and CEO as part of a sweeping demand for change.

Terri Salstrom has been with the credit union for more than 35 years, with 25 of those years as president and CEO of the $245 million-asset institution.

Jeff Deuel will take over as CEO of Heritage Bank in Olympia, Wash., for Brian Vance, who will remain as the head of the holding company until next year.

Coastal Financial in Everett, Wash., said that it could be active in M&A with capital from its IPO and that it has already identified several possible targets.

Level One Bank in Farmington, Mich., has hired a team of mortgage bankers from MB Financial, which previously announced it was shutting down this business line.

When GDPR went into effect in May, it was expected that the European law would touch a lot of U.S. payment companies because of their international scope. Now it's clear that even purely domestic U.S. firms will have to adhere to some version of the data-privacy law.

The regional bank's move is part of an industrywide transformation of call centers and operations centers to handle more complex tasks and trim costs.

Woodforest National in Texas has relied heavily on hundreds of in-store branches and overdraft fees to boost revenue. That is starting to change.

First Western Financial in Denver could use the roughly $31 million it is hoping to raise to pay off debt and redeem preferred shares.