Commercial banking

The $542 million acquisition would more than double the Florida-based bank's assets and deposits in one of the nation's most competitive markets.

The Rhode Island bank joins a small group of financial institutions offering corporate clients the chance to park their cash reserves in environmentally friendly projects.

JPMorgan Chase’s investment bankers posted their best quarter ever as a record first half in dealmaking bolstered the bottom line at the nation’s largest bank. But expenses climbed in the second quarter and loan growth remained out of reach.

The company will increase annual base salaries by up to $25,000 in an effort to retain younger staff facing burnout from working long hours during the pandemic.

The plan underscores how Chief Executive David Solomon is seeking to reshape U.S. operations geographically as he looks to rein in expenses, placing thousands of jobs in cheaper locales.

Sunwest Bank in Irvine, California, lets business customers open new checking accounts completely online, a technology challenge some large and regional financial institutions have yet to tackle.

Goldman Sachs Group has begun offering cash management and treasury services in the U.K. as it builds out its new transaction-banking arm.

The San Francisco company has promoted or hired several bankers to steer growth in retail and commercial banking operations just months after completing its purchase of Radius.

Mark Carney, a onetime Bank of England governor, argued that banks should not cut ties with polluting businesses, but rather work with clients to help them minimize their impact on the environment.

While the industry is facing greater pressure to scrutinize the environmental risks associated with its financing activities, many banks also sense opportunities in climate change. Here are some examples.

In merging with First Midwest Bancorp, the Indiana company would finally gain a presence in the Midwest’s largest city.

The investment in Finitive is one of a number of technology agreements that the commercial lender has struck recently in an effort to broaden its reach.

The $1 billion bond, which follows similar issuances by Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Truist Financial, gives a big role to broker-dealers owned by minorities, women and disabled veterans.

The U.S. arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has hired nine bankers away from Wells Fargo in an effort to expand its restaurant finance group. The lender focused on the fast-casual and quick-serve segments during the pandemic and anticipates growth in that sector.

Zoom meetings may never go away, but in the fiercely competitive world of high finance, visits to faraway clients are starting to stage a rapid comeback.

Gage is essentially charged with implementing executives’ vision into practical changes at the Dallas-based company.

Khan, who began her banking career as a part-time teller, heads the bank's retail operations in Minnesota and Western Wisconsin.

Within her first week at City National Bank in 2018, Dodd was working on her first deal — and the first deal for the aerospace and defense group that she was brought in to help launch

Human resources professionals predict that 2021 will be a year of rampant job-hopping as workers who were reluctant to make a move during the pandemic are now reassessing what they want.

The Portland, Ore., company has a simple growth plan: convert more Paycheck Protection Program borrowers into long-term customers.