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.

Bankers are expected to field numerous questions on third-quarter earnings calls about the threat of shrinking loan yields, stubbornly high deposit prices and what they're going to do about them.

Caught in the middle of a credit-subsidy debate, the program would have shut down on Tuesday without congressional action.

Ernest Pinner, who co-founded the Florida company in 1999, will become non-executive chairman in January.

Warsaw Federal will keep its name and charter after joining First Mutual Holding in Lakewood, Ohio.

The regulator has pledged to put forth a rule on credit union-bank purchases before the end of the year. It's likely to lead to another clash with bankers.