Eagle Bancorp in Bethesda has agreed to pay $22.9 million to regulators to settle claims it failed to report loans totaling $99 million made to founder Ron Paul, who will pay more than $500,000 in fines in addition to being barred from the industry.

Farmers Bank plans to develop new revenue from home loans, despite seeing many bigger lenders flee the same market.

In their public battles over the issue of credit union buyouts of banks, bankers and credit union executives are forgetting to ask some key questions.

BankTech Ventures, which is the product of five firms including two community banks, finds fintechs that its bank partners could work with and invest in.

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

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

In Arizent's second annual survey examining how consumers feel about financial services companies, credit unions largely came out on top. Here's what banks can learn.

The West Virginia bank said its acquisition of Integrated Financial Holdings in North Carolina would give it SBA and USDA lending teams that have originated more than $1 billion of loans since 2018.

Harry Madonna, the Philadelphia bank's founder, has taken back the reins after its most recent CEO, Vernon Hill, said he was forced to resign.

Native communities want to launch or expand their own community development financial institutions but are running up against regulatory challenges and a lack of support from mainstream banks.

Rising interest rates, lower stock prices and other headwinds have caused many banks to pump the brakes on dealmaking. But some are betting that these trends will be too short-lived to deter them from engaging in mergers and acquisitions.

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.