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After the Cincinnati bank started a personal assistant service for new mothers, it learned new parents needed help with budgeting, and that motivated it to team up with a Goldman Sachs firm to establish a financial wellness program for all its employees.

VisionBank is the second de novo effort that would focus on the nation's capital.

Echoing the set of restrictive rules known as GDPR enacted earlier this year by the European Union, the state legislation — which does not take effect until 2020 — will almost certainly be the subject of intense lobbying from business giants that vacuum up all the data.

Nanopay is planning to add bank, processor and accounting software partners for a B2B cross-border and domestic transfer service which it says exceeds the performance of blockchain-based systems.

A new court filing suggests that Stephen Calk was named to a 13-member economic advisory team in 2016 in exchange for approving a $9.5 million loan to former campaign manager Paul Manafort.

Credit unions have seen massive gains in auto lending in recent years, but one analyst fears CUs may be too focused on that and losing share of wallet elsewhere as a result.

Provident Financial said it increased its allowance against a commercial loan after discovering that the borrower overstated the value of its collateral.

Credit unions in the Cornhusker State held the top two spots in a survey from Forbes and Statista, a marketing research firm.

While sellers in urban centers are getting a lot of attention from acquirers, Southern Bancorp in Arkansas shows the upside of pursuing smaller deals in underserved rural markets.

Beach Community Bank, which recently added $100 million in capital, hired veteran banker Carl Chaney as its executive chairman.