The St. Louis company is gaining a sizable Small Business Administration platform and several niche deposit teams. Keeping those specialists in the fold will be key to the acquisition's success.

If the U.S. Postal Service can hold talks with big banks, like JPMorgan Chase, about offering financial services in post offices, then it could easily strike up similar conversations with credit unions.

Executives and boards are bracing for elevated loan losses and stagnant revenue, which will mean more conversations about belt tightening as opposed to added investment.

USAL Bancorp will have nearly $300 million in assets after it buys Escambia County Bank.

The company will pay $156 million for a bank with a large Small Business Administration lending platform.

The Missouri company 's deal for Clifford Bancshares is set to close later this year.

The Dallas regional is placing deposits in several minority depository institutions, providing each with low-cost funds that can be redeployed in underserved communities.

With big banks largely shunning the program, small banks see an opening to grab more market share in commercial lending.

The deal for Our Community Bank comes two months after Crane agreed to acquire Community State Bank of Southwestern Indiana.

Crane Credit Union's deal for Our Community Bank comes two months after it agreed to acquire Community State Bank of Southwestern Indiana.

The Japanese conglomerate first applied for deposit insurance in July 2019 and again in May 2020.

ViZ Bank would eventually have branches across several major U.S. cities, including Dallas, Denver and Atlanta. It would also offer a program to help former inmates build savings and establish credit.

The Massachusetts company, which converted from a credit union to a bank in 2013, is laying off more than 40 employees with a focus on people working in its retail banking operations.

The Pennsylvania company recruited John Montgomery from First Bank in St. Louis to take the helm on Aug. 31.

The Massachusetts company is laying off more than 40 employees with a focus on people working in its retail banking operations.

The proposed combination would create a bank with $3 billion in assets in central Virginia.

As the discredited Libor interest rate benchmark enters its last months, some banks are turning away from the repo-based alternative that regulators prefer. What could go wrong?

The Paycheck Protection Program has masked what has been a year of tepid demand and tightened lending standards. And bankers aren't expecting a rebound anytime soon.

A public-private partnership that has fewer rules and restrictions than the Paycheck Protection Program would save more small businesses.

The head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston said the central bank had acquired stakes in 32 business loans as of Monday, four times the amount from two weeks earlier.