Year to date through Sep. 30, 2021. Dollars in thousands.

David Felan was most recently an executive vice president at Texas Capital Bancshares. In his new role, he will oversee the Kansas bank's expansion in the Lone Star State's hottest markets.

OneUnited's new installment-loan product is meant to break customers out of a cycle of debt. It will compete with similar offerings from heavyweights like Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Huntington.

A U.S. central bank digital currency is coming, and what form it takes could spell opportunity — or trouble — for the banking industry.

The Louisiana-based company is among a growing number of community banks that have taken on new talent in the wake of competitors' consolidation.

The $3 billion-asset company is expecting to add seven branches in the northwestern part of the state, and to expand its commercial lending business in the Toledo market, with the acquisition of Comunibanc Corp.

Some community banks and credit unions worry that by hiring out-of-state workers to fill their many job openings, as other employers have done, they could erode community ties.

Newity was founded to buy and administer Paycheck Protection Program loans. Now that the program has ended, the company is teaming with a bank on a platform that offers Small Business Administration 7(a) loans.

The last three months of 2021 were strong for most lenders, which will report results soon. But the outlook for the coming months has been clouded by the spread of the newest coronavirus variant, which has many banks grappling with staffing shortages and branch restrictions.

On Sep. 30, 2021. Dollars in thousands.