On top of recession fears and elevated regulatory scrutiny, worry about the banking industry's weakness could delay the approval of mergers such as Toronto-Dominion Bank's pending acquisition of First Horizon.

The company agreed to pay $27.2 million in restitution to shareholders and revised its 2022 earnings to show a steep loss. The plea agreement with the Department of Justice was tied to Sterling's now defunct low-documentation mortgage program.

1831 Bancorp and South Shore Bancorp plan to join forces to bolster their collective resources and competitive standing in New England's largest market.

Buoyed by higher profits and an influx of deposits from prepaid corporate debit cards, Patriot National Bancorp appears to be nearing a deal that would boost its size and expand its digital-banking capacities, Chairman Michael Carrazza says.

Analysts are increasingly focused on rising office property vacancy rates, driven by remote-work trends and higher costs of living. They are worried that cash-strapped landlords could default on loans and cause losses in banks' CRE portfolios.

Community lenders do not share the problems that led to the downfall of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank — but their customers and members don't always know that.

The Philadelphia bank's new CEO says a planned infusion would let it update its branch footprint, technology and other resources as part of a turnaround.

The upstate New York company said in a regulatory filing that Daniel Reininga, who has been chief executive for 12 years, will retire on March 10, following a cybersecurity attack and an OCC crackdown.

Robert Hill Jr., who had been CEO of the company before it merged with CenterState Bank in 2020, will resign in April. The company says it's replacing his position with a nonexecutive chairman "as part of a broader, ongoing effort to enhance the independence of the company's board."

The activist investor is crying foul, claiming the Dallas-based bank harassed one of his board candidates into withdrawing and rejected the nomination of another. The bank says the candidates failed to make full disclosures.

The Illinois company is smaller than other banks that have done away with the charges, but it's been substantially less reliant on overdraft revenue than some depositories. Wintrust executives explained the decision as a response to technological changes in consumer banking.

In three years as a subsidiary of $3.2 billion-asset MVB Financial, Chartwell Compliance has tripled its headcount and revenues, MVB CEO Larry Mazza said Wednesday, after announcing Chartwell's sale to New York-based Ankura.

A group including Dr. Bernice King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter, and former SBA Regional Administrator Ashley Bell says the deal struck Tuesday to acquire Holladay Bank & Trust in Utah marks the first time Black investors have acquired a non-Black bank.

The company has agreed to acquire the parent of Peoples Bank in a deal expected to close in the third quarter.

A Piper Sandler survey of CEOs found a majority expect to expand their balance sheets this year. They also foresee increases in nonperforming credits, with office loans a key area of weakness, as well as heightened pressure on net interest margins.

Nothing demoralizes a good employee like seeing managers tolerate a bad one.