Banking

Its agreement to sell two branches to another Louisiana bank is part of a broader plan by MidSouth's new CEO to eliminate seven branches.

Rob Kunisch will succeed Jack Steil as CEO of 1st Mariner Bank, which has been seeking to right itself after years of difficulties.

The addition of Sean Glithero as CFO is one of several new hires by the online small-business lender.

Raising funds for advocacy, life-saving research and other worthy causes.

Apple's plans to display a bright blue bar on iPhone screens when an application is monitoring the user's location may feel like a threat to location-based marketing. More likely, it is an overdue wake-up call for banks to improve their communication about the benefits of location data.

From the largest banks to the smallest independents, policymakers want to hear the mortgage industry speak with one voice in the critical efforts to reform the government-sponsored enterprises.

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Wells Fargo beats out other banks — and by a wide margin — in BrandZ’s ranking of most valuable brands; American bank CEOs make much more than their foreign counterparts.

Interviews with entrepreneurs and techies at the Copenhagen conference.

Though they face an array of competitive threats — from digital currencies to peer-to-peer payment apps — the vast majority of community banks do not have a payments strategy, according to a recent survey.

The $487 million deal would be OceanFirst's fourth, and largest, acquisition in its home state since 2015.

With a new core system, Surety Bank plans to connect with customers outside of its geographic market.

Enabling peers to compare notes will help ID management specialists at regional, midtier banks who face the same requirements as large banks but command smaller operating budgets, IDPro’s founder says.

The promise of fintech is that it might offer underbanked consumers access to financial products. But some are worried that relying on algorithms to make credit decisions could open up problems of its own.

The New York regulator's move is aimed at giving credit unions more opportunities to recruit new members and serve existing members.

Timothy Zimmerman, who once called CECL a dangerous proposal, now sees a justification for the FASB standard. And he is urging bankers to start working on plans to comply with the change.

It may be a bigger challenge than financial institutions realize to avoid the cannabis sector, which includes a whole host of ancillary businesses from agricultural supply sellers to real estate developers.

Readers criticized a credit union securitization proposal, weighed in on scaling back the CFPB’s complaint database, debated the need for banks to examine gender-based salary comparisons, and more.

Investors drive up bank stocks on the promise of fatter dividends; Capital One bucks the trend on concerns over credit cards and auto loans.

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