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After being involved in more than 70 syndicated finance transactions involving noninvestment grade companies, KeyBanc Capital Markets has graduated to lead bookrunner status, under Amy Carlson.

Besides transforming her own bank, Stewart has left her mark more broadly on the industry through advocacy.

Over the past year, Centric Financial CEO Patricia Husic has made several big hires and added a 25,000-square-foot corporate office for the bank.

Amazon's voice assistant will soon be in cars and even microwaves, but banks have not yet proven to customers they can serve them with conversational tech.

"Normal system upgrade" knocks out SunTrust's online- and mobile-banking ops; "just a matter of time" before Amazon, Google enter mortgages; Wells Fargo looking for Tim Sloan's replacement?; and more from this week's most-read stories.

Sound Credit Union in Tacoma, Wash., has agreed to buy Bank of Washington in Lynnewood.

The San Juan company has largely recovered from the hurricane that hit a year ago, and it has made extensive preparations for future natural disasters. Yet its home market is still suffering from debt and net outmigration of residents.

The central bank said the proposal is intended to eliminate duplication of rules for entities covered by the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008.

The agency wants more information as it conducts fair-lending exams, but conflicting statutes make writing a data collection rule difficult.

Union Bankshares in Virginia has been adding executives from much larger competitors as it looks to compete more effectively with bigger banks