Valley, which had focused on Florida in recent years, will double its market share in Bergen County with the $740 million acquisition.

Ken Lehman recently bought a block of shares in Village Bank & Trust Financial.

Brad Goedken wants agreements for HarborOne Bancorp to include better protections, such as cost reductions if a service fails.

The number of minority depository institution charters is declining even as their financial performance is going up, according to a new study by the FDIC.

The biggest challenge for credit union acquirers involves retaining commercial customers at the banks they buy. That's why constant communication, and having more commercial products and services, matter.

The deal with Frandsen Financial is the 12th bank M&A transaction this year involving a seller in Wisconsin.

Seed, a San Francisco startup, has developed a platform that lets small businesses quickly open accounts online. That's an important feature for Cross River as it courts more fintech clients.

Shore Community Bank, which has five branches in Ocean County, will sell for $53 million.

Sterling Bancorp must enhance its BSA policies and hire an outside firm to review its account activity.

Independent Bank in Texas, the seller, gained the business after buying Guaranty Bancorp.

Facebook's plans to launch its Libra cryptocurrency dominated much of the discussion at American Banker's Digital Banking conference last week, but attendees also debated what big tech company might strike next and what future digital innovations are in store.

All of the Seattle company's directors, including CEO Mark Mason, were backed by shareholders despite a challenge by Blue Lion Partners.

Public-sector development of a speedier settlement service, to operate alongside the one being developed by The Clearing House, is crucial for seeing that institutions of all sizes are able to take advantage of this technology.

Community bankers want to cut the time it takes for customers to establish digital accounts to mere minutes, but it's hard to do that and make other improvements without increasing fraud risk.

The Cincinnati bank could add about $30 million a year in noninterest income with its deal for the capital markets firm Bannockburn Global Forex.

First Internet is poised to acquire an SBA lending team to help it meet an ambitious loan target for the year — a target the CEO plans on doubling in coming years.

A Wisconsin credit union's agreement to acquire a small Chicago bank, the eighth credit union-bank deal this year, led bankers to once again call for policymakers to slow the trend. A credit union trade group complained that banks are trying to stifle competition.

There’s a long list of reasons traditional lenders haven't kept up with the needs of entrepreneurs, says Judith Erwin, the head of Grasshopper Bank in New York. One is not asking for enough feedback.

Deal values this year have been smaller than last year despite the hubbub over BB&T-SunTrust. Prosperity's agreement to buy LegacyTexas raises the possibility that the size of bank deals could start climbing.

The new regulation mandated by Congress expands eligibility for a simplified reporting form to financial institutions with $5 billion of assets.