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Creative growth strategies are helping banks with $10B to $50B of assets — including Webster and TCF — improve profitability. These ‘tweeners’ deal with tougher regulations than smaller competitors without the scale larger ones have to absorb the expense.

Financial institutions of all sizes are overhauling benefits policies and promoting work-life balance to better compete for millennial recruits with the hipper tech sector. The big changes include longer periods of paid time off for new parents.

From SoFi to Venmo, fintech competitors are creating a customer experience that is so fast and easy community bankers like Julieann Thurlow cannot help but worry.

The number of deals in early 2017 was similar to the same period last year, though the pricing has increased. Also see which M&A advisers were the most active for each region during 2016 in our annual ranking.

Banks are undergoing a digital transformation at the same time that hacker culture has taken off, escalating the security risks. Here is one strategy for protecting data where many banks need to improve.

The deal is Home BancShares’ second in Florida in less than five months and would let the Arkansas company further solidify its presence in the Sunshine State.

Community banks, big commercial banks and Wall Street investment houses are finding common ground in small-business loan funds that help Main Street, minimize potential losses on credit extended to young companies and sometimes lead to new business prospects.

As banks work to integrate their mobile apps with their physical channels, the march toward universal cardless ATM technology continues.

Google Play and CFSI aim to improve use of financial health apps through a storefront organized by consumers' needs and by publishing a guide for app developers.

The demonstration was staged by a union-affiliated group that wants to organize bank workers.

The Ollo card has the backing of former Citi CEO Vikram Pandit and several other big names in finance.

Bankers spoke candidly about the ups and downs that partnering with a young tech firm entails at American Banker’s Retail Banking 2017 conference in Miami last week.

By bending over backward when borrowers trade in an older car for a new one, lenders are said to have embarked down an unsustainable path. The warning, by Moody’s, adds to concerns about credit quality in auto lending.

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The industry needs to establish a clear set of rules and standards so safe and secure financial data access and sharing continues unrestricted.

Credit unions are taking part in all manner of community events and donating time, money and resources to better the lives of the members they serve.

By bending over backward when borrowers trade in an older car for a new one, lenders are said to have embarked down an unsustainable path. The warning, by Moody’s, adds to concerns about credit quality in auto lending.

Large banks may collaborate to reduce back-office expenses; survey says banks give in to customers who ask for reduced fees.

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As multi-factor identification becomes the norm, biometrics can be one or more steps that consumers can easily execute.