Retail & Commercial

An improved net interest margin helped offset a slight decrease in fee income at the Wisconsin company.

The Lake Mary, Fla., credit union has agreed to buy Fidelity Bank of Florida, which the SBA designated as a certified lender in 2017.

With SBA lending at a standstill, many small businesses can't access the capital they need to create and retain jobs, Stephen Steinour says.

Spring Labs is spearheading a group of prominent fintech lenders to use a blockchain-based, peer-to-peer network to share consumer information to help with ID verification on loan applications.

Three groups in North Carolina have scrapped plans to start banks because of difficulty raising capital, among other reasons.

Wells Fargo named Steve Troutner head of the community bank's U.S. Western region, one of the unit's most senior outside hires since a scandal over bogus accounts erupted more than two years ago.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said unpaid federal workers could borrow to tide themselves over during the government shutdown rather than call in sick to earn a paycheck elsewhere.

The Dallas company boosted its loan-loss provision in the fourth quarter to cover deteriorating leveraged loans, causing it to miss profit estimates.

The surge in new lending at the Pasadena, Calif., company offset rising deposit costs and sluggish fee-income growth.

The bank says regulators want information about its possible role in the money laundering scandal; Kristi Mitchem moves to BMO Global Asset Management.