Wintrust has developed a specialty financing insurance premium payments for companies and individuals while PacWest and Signature Bank are meeting strong demand for loans to venture funds that invest in technology firms.

Community banks, which rely more on the charges than their larger counterparts do, were instrumental in staving off new regulation during the Obama era. But much has changed since Democrats last held power in Washington.

The Aurora, Illinois-based buyer said it would pay $297 million to acquire West Suburban Bancorp in Lombard, Illinois.

The $542 million acquisition would more than double the Florida-based bank's assets and deposits in one of the nation's most competitive markets.

The best performers in our annual ranking of banks with $10 billion to $50 billion of assets benefited from a big lending push. But like their peers, the top 10 as a group saw their profitability slip last year compared with 2019.

Small Business Administration lenders have reported strong quarterly results, but those gains could evaporate later this year. Here’s why.

A flurry of activity in recent weeks has prompted chatter on earning calls about banks’ merger ambitions. While some CEOs bemoaned high asking prices, others said they are making more inquiries, identifying targets and, in some cases, closing in on deals.

The Massachusetts thrift is borrowing from the playbook of larger rivals as it looks to add customers from outside its Boston-area footprint.

Mortgages and wealth management generated fees that gave top midtiers an edge, as the pandemic halted most lending outside of the Paycheck Protection Program.

United Community Banks in South Carolina and Blue Ridge Bancshares in Virginia have each struck agreements to buy or merge with banks in major metropolitan markets, where they will aim to siphon business from larger rivals.

Acquiring the city’s largest bank would give Pittsburgh-based FNB the No. 6 market share in Maryland's largest city.

It will be Christopher McComish’s second tour as a bank CEO. He led Scottrade bank for two years, between 2015 and 2017.

Lakeland is paying $244 million for 1st Constitution Bancorp. The combined bank would be the fifth largest by deposit market share in New Jersey.

The San Jose, California, bank will take a hit to second-quarter earnings to settle claims arising from an alleged Ponzi scheme.

Prosecutors have rested their case against onetime bank CEO Stephen Calk, who allegedly approved millions of dollars in loans in exchange for a potential job in the Trump administration. Federal Savings Bank employees have testified against Calk, whose lawyers have sought to shift blame to underlings

Sam Susser, who built a family business of more than 630 convenience stores in the state, thinks he can find similar success in community banking by courting small commercial clients that larger rivals have outgrown.

The Ohio community bank generated 76% of its 2020 revenue from the three-year-old business line. But mortgages are cyclical, and the bank wants to step back before things get rough.

On Mar. 31, 2021. Dollars in thousands.

Fringe Benefits Design in Bloomington, Minnesota, will become a consultant of the buyer's Benefit Plans Administrative Services unit.

Mark Schroeder will step down as chief executive after 22 years. He will be succeeded by Neil Dauby, the Indiana bank's president and chief operating officer.