Banking

The Fort Wayne-based credit union hired David Shadburne to replace Greg Mohr, who is retiring.

The rise of e-commerce during the pandemic has fueled demand for warehouse space as companies look to move their products closer to their customers. While a slight slowdown is now under way, bankers still see plenty of business ahead.

Executives at Wayne Savings Bancshares and Main Street Financial grew progressively more comfortable with the idea of a deal during six months of talks, Wayne Savings CEO James VanSickle says.

Attorney General William Tong is asking state lawmakers to grant his office more power to investigate consumer complaints after problems marred M&T Bank's integration with People's United Financial.

Firms under $1 billion of assets that never had a chief risk or credit officer, for example, are creating these roles — and in some cases filling them with executives who were displaced by a merger at their last employer.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken an important step in saying that it would work to root out unfair practices in all banking services. This is will help ensure all customers are treated fairly.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is attempting to make broad changes to its authority and expand what counts as discrimination. This could lead to banks to cease offering important services.

The Maryland bank is merging with Linkbancorp in a nearly $168 million deal that would create a $3 billion-asset company. The transaction comes just months after OceanFirst Financial and Partners nixed their merger plan, citing regulatory delays.

Net income for the country's six largest banks is expected to fall 15% in the fiscal first quarter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That would be the largest drop since the third quarter of 2020.

Centric Federal Credit Union, which previously covered only Ouachita and Lincoln parishes in north Louisiana, has received regulatory approval to add an additional 26 parishes and counties in its home state and neighboring Arkansas.

Apollo Global Management is in talks to inject the funds to support the leveraged-finance business of Credit Suisse Group's investment banking spinoff First Boston, potentially making it one of the biggest backers of the Swiss lender's revamp.

The sweeping legislative package would require digital-asset businesses to get licensed and add to the authority of the state financial services regulator. Illinois officials say the changes would protect consumers and level the regulatory playing field, but a banking trade group is pushing back against some of the ideas.

Driver Management Principal Abbott Cooper said the Dallas company failed to foresee the spate of interest rate hikes that have cut its profitability. Following the bank's latest rebuff, Cooper is threatening legal action.

The arrangement is designed to benefit commercial clients of both banks that operate on multiple continents. The companies reached the arrangement as part of the recent sale of Bank of the West.

Derrick Bailey, the Ohio credit union's president, will become chief executive as expected. He will succeed Leslie Bumgarner, who announced her plans to retire last year, on July 1.

The move comes after rivals Bank of America and Goldman Sachs Group cut CEO pay, while JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo left theirs unchanged.

Customers will enter or modify their financial goals in Life Sync, which will immediately alert their financial advisor. 

Buckeye State Bancshares near Columbus said it would buy cross-state rival Rockhold Bancshares. Only six such deals were announced in January, making it the slowest first month of a year for M&A since the financial crisis.

The Moon Township-based credit union promoted Lisa Florian, its senior vice president of experience, digital strategy and marketing, to replace Ron Celaschi, who is leaving to become CEO of Patriot Federal Credit Union in Chambersburg.

TD Bank estimates it hands out 20 million pens every year. Huntington is getting close to offering its 80 millionth pen. It's a way to get a bank's brand to travel with customers across the globe, but is it worth it?