Btech Consortium, a partnership between several small banks, a venture capital firm and an asset manager, will identify emerging technologies that meet their members' near-term needs.

Farmers and the bankers who lend to them are increasingly concerned that rising costs will hasten a recession and hamper credit quality in 2023.

Ninety institutions made American Banker's 10th annual list of the Best Banks to Work For. Here are insights about communication, leadership, culture and more from executives at this year's honorees.

Inconsistent rules for calculating bank capital threaten to cut off small banks from a key source of liquidity.

The Seattle bank's all-stock deal for Luther Burbank Corp. is expected to close as soon as the second quarter of 2023.

Spencer Savings in New Jersey is taking investor Larry Seidman to court, alleging he's conspiring with other customers to convert the bank to stock ownership. Seidman says it's a farce: "I'm in a conspiracy with people I don't know."

Savanna-Thomson State Bank in Illinois has agreed to buy Fidelity Bank in Iowa and says it expects to complete the acquisition early next year.

The $186 million deal, announced in November 2021, was originally expected to close in the first half of this year. "The environment for M&A is just more challenging," an OceanFirst executive says.

David DePillo stepped down not long after the company said it would tap the brakes on loan growth and focus on lagging deposit gathering.