Moving its loan operations beyond its geographic footprint, California's US Metro Bank shot up in our rankings of the best-performing community banks.

Chairman and CEO Craig Dwight is counting on the Indiana company's new president, Thomas Prame, to pursue nonbank acquisition targets after it scooped up more than a dozen banks in the past decade.

Data as of Mar. 31, 2022. Dollars in thousands.

Data as of Mar. 31, 2022. Dollars in thousands.

Data as of Mar. 31, 2022. Dollars in thousands.

The serial acquirer agreed to pay $488.6 million for Professional Bank, which operates in areas of South Florida that have seen an influx of business activity since the start of the pandemic.

Thomas Prame is leaving Old National Bancorp, which recently merged with his former employer First Midwest Bancorp, to join a smaller rival with aggressive growth plans.

For too long, Community Reinvestment Act enforcement has relied on income to serve as a proxy for race. This must stop.

BayFirst Financial in Florida is using gross — not net — income to calculate how much credit smaller enterprises can be granted. Company officials say the Paycheck Protection Program used that approach with great success, but others contend the practice is risky for private-sector lenders.

Membership at the Virginia credit union has grown rapidly in recent years, including an 11% spurt in the first half of this year, thanks to a charter switch, heavy marketing spending and generous deposit rates.

The Massachusetts bank used data analytics to improve onboarding, cross-sell more effectively and prevent attrition.

Union Savings Bank's new technology is helping the bank compete with larger competitors and attract younger customers, its leaders say.

Flush with capital and touting its biggest loan pipeline ever, the nation’s No. 1 Small Business Administration 7(a) lender is laying plans to hire dozens of bankers away from competitors. It’s one of several companies seeking to expand at a time when others are likely to pull back on commercial lending.

The Maryland bank has lost 13% of its credit card customer base in the past year amid a flurry of marketing activity by newer players. But it is refusing to panic.

A combination of higher organic loan growth and fee-based revenue streams powered top-performing banks in 2021.

Our annual ranking of banks looks at the metrics that matter.

The top 20 banks with assets of $2 billion to $10 billion outshined their peers in loan and revenue growth while maintaining pristine credit quality in 2021, according to a new ranking. Can they do the same this year as recession clouds gather?

State Bankshares in North Dakota was the top performer in the $2 billion to $10 billion asset class in 2021, according to Capital Performance Group. Strong commercial lending, a national mortgage business as well as regional wealth management and insurance units offer diverse sources of growth, a company executive says.

The deal comes on top of the company’s previously announced agreement to acquire another Wisconsin bank, Denmark Bancshares.

Somerset Savings Bank will convert to a stock-owned bank before merging with Regal Bancorp, the holding company for the $545 million-asset Regal Bank, also in New Jersey.