Retail & Commercial

Little Bank in Kinston, N.C., has agreed to buy its first bank. It will pay $30.7 million, or $11.94 a share, for the $298 million-asset Union Banc in Oxford, N.C.

The founder of Sterling Bancshares in Poplar Bluff, Mo., has resigned a month after he being placed on administrative leave.

Betting the farm on record crop, livestock and dairy prices has turned into a losing investment for an expanding share of America's agricultural heartland. The level of debt to income is the highest in three decades, and growers are increasingly unable to make loan payments.

Aaron Vermut has resigned as chief executive of Prosper Marketplace, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Vermut stepped down last week but will remain a director at the San Francisco-based online lender, according to the report, which cites unnamed sources.

KeyCorp integrated First Niagara just a couple of months after the deal closed. CIO Amy Brady says coordination between business leaders and the tech team paved the way.

Summit State Bank in Santa Rosa, Calif., has hired a rival’s chief credit officer.

If there is one thing credit unions and banks can agree on with regard to the National Credit Union Administration's latest effort to revamp its field-of-membership rules it is this: a lawsuit is brewing.

The same incentives structure that encouraged bad behavior at the bank can be blamed for ethical mishaps in other industries as well as the government.

Midland States Bancorp in Effingham, Ill., has plucked its new chief financial officer from a much larger bank: Kevin Thompson, who joins Midland from Zions Bancorp., where he had been senior vice president of corporate finance since 2014.

The president-elect faces major questions about credit access, affordable housing, the future of Dodd-Frank, and the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the extent to which he will act upon them remains unclear.