Banking

Meridian had been looking to expand in certain Boston suburbs before agreeing to buy Meetinghouse Bancorp for $17.8 million.

Corporate One FCU has teamed up with San Francisco-based Roostify to provide CUs and CUSOs with a streamlined digital mortgage platform.

Before smartphones and digital wallets, a Georgia bank in the '90s partnered with a calling card provider to expand customer relationships and drive noninterest income.

The two companies have created a robo-adviser with financial literacy tools to help people understand the basics of investing as they assemble their first portfolio.

The company will also gain its first branches in New Mexico after it buys Peoples Inc.

The financial press opines on the Federal Reserve’s bank stress tests; the FT argues the Financial Choice Act is a “blatant attack” on shareholder rights and reduces bank corporate governance.

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The following are some of the noteworthy things we heard at American Banker’s Digital Banking 2017 conference held earlier this month in Austin, Texas.

The Canadian bank twice sweetened its bid for PrivateBancorp, raising the stakes. Now it must gain traction in the hypercompetitive Chicago market while hunting for more acquisitions.

ES Bancshares, which recently sold a branch near Poughkeepsie, plans to open second branches in the two boroughs.

Compliance, security and data analytics were the themes at this year’s New York FinTech Innovation Lab demo day.

Host Brett King talks to Bill Barhydt of Abra and Shachar Bialick of Curve.

A dad challenges JPMorgan Chase’s parental leave policy. A shareholder proposal to address the gender pay gap gets shot down at Citigroup. Plus, Cathy Bessant, Yolande Piazza and Elizabeth Warren.

From making meals for hospitalized veterans' families to donating in support of life-saving treatments for kids, credit unions are doing all the right things for all the right reasons.

A headquarters move to Boston, a core system with plenty of headroom and a CEO who admires big acquirers like M&T and the old Banknorth: All the signs are there of an ambitious bank with a plan.

Operational changes may be enticing to investors, but they threaten the very foundation of marketplace lending, potentially shutting out those the burgeoning sector was meant to serve.

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All 34 big banks demonstrate they could survive a severe recession; credit cards emerge as the biggest vulnerability, with a projected $100 billion in losses.

The digital wallet market is expanding quickly, giving banks a chance to cement customer relationships by offering their own apps, writes Mike Lynch, chief strategy officer at InAuth.