Many community banks are launching digital banks, more aggressively courting younger customers and abandoning the idea that only primary banking relationships are worthwhile.

McCrady, the driving force behind the Pittsburgh bank's $500 million investment in early childhood education and development, is the Community Impact honoree selected as part of the Most Powerful Women program.

American Banker's Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance gathered at the Gitano Jungle Room in New York on Wednesday for an evening of cocktails and conversation.

The factors that drive small banks to accept acquisition offers and the impact those decisions have on their communities must be better understood, according to the Fed’s Michelle Bowman and the FDIC’s Jelena McWilliams.

When Washington Federal last rebranded, it was to signal its shift from a savings and loan association to a commercial bank. This time around, it's to reflect geographic diversity and its desire to be viewed as a bank.

It's the latest move by Radius to extend its banking-as-a-service offering to fintech partners.

Good customer service, layered with new technology, gives community banks an advantage over big banks.

Sound Bank is now Dogwood State Bank after its sale to an investor group. The buyers also moved Dogwoods State's corporate offices from eastern North Carolina to the state's capital.

The agency’s Small Business Investment Company program is slumping, and Congress is pressuring its top executive, Joseph Shepard, to get it back on track or step aside.

The new regulation will allow more flexibility for board directors and senior managers to serve at multiple institutions.

Dorothy Savarese will remain the Massachusetts bank's chairman and CEO.

Julieann Thurlow says Reading Cooperative Bank in Massachusetts is well positioned to help immigrants and millennials. Technology is crucial to serving both groups, she says.

Jelena McWilliams told community bankers that policymakers should be a resource for banks trying to adopt new technology.

Surety's first online bank, booyah, is aimed at college students and young grads.

More community bankers now say that cost of funds, not regulatory expense, poses the biggest threat to profits, according to a new survey.

The company could raise as much as $158 million by selling shares to the public.

The Montana company will pay $135 million for a bank with 10 branches in seven Arizona markets.

A second activist investor is pushing the company's board to find a buyer.

The transition to Stein from Hadley Robbins is the result of a multiyear succession process, the Tacoma, Wash., company said. Robbins had succeeded the late Melanie Dressel.

Gulf Capital Bank has received conditional approval from state and federal officials and could be up and running late this year or early next year, its organizers say.