Retail & Commercial

Lendistry, a fintech community development financial institution, obtained a license that allows it to become one of the few nondepository lenders with access to the Small Business Administration's flagship lending program.

The Mississippi-based First says the deal would allow it to acquire key talent, bolster its presence in northwest Florida and expand into the Tampa area.

The lender is the latest to announce cuts in response to declining production volume.

The first-of-their-kind measures, urging banks to move more aggressively to curtail new fossil-fuel lending, garnered between 11% and 13% of the vote at Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo. Those totals were less than climate activists had hoped to garner, but high enough to clear certain thresholds for resubmission next year.

M&T Bank in Buffalo, New York, named Peter D’Arcy head of commercial banking after completing its acquisition of People’s United Financial earlier this month. D’Arcy will take over from Gino Martocci, who is retiring.

More than two years into the pandemic, banks hit several turning points during the first quarter. On the positive side, commercial loan growth finally materialized, but there were also snags, particularly in fee income.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will conduct supervisory exams of nonbank fintech companies that pose risks to consumers as Director Rohit Chopra seeks to level the regulatory playing field with supervised banks.

The industry is preparing for a grueling federal rulemaking process to implement the Corporate Transparency Act, which was intended to streamline anti-money-laundering compliance. Analysts say the devil will be in the regulation’s myriad details.

Executives at the Alabama bank anticipated that some corporate deposits would start to leave during the first quarter as interest rates rose. Instead, deposits grew to a record $138.7 billion.

The bank didn’t disclose which specific employees, or how many, were impacted by the announcement.