Intense competition for executives and top lenders has elevated the role acquisitions play in filling key positions.

On Mar. 31, 2019. Dollars in thousands.

Organizers of Silver River Community Bank must raise $17 million before opening.

The bank started buying more Treasurys and mortgage-backeds over a year ago, long before talk about rate cuts. What did it know that its rivals didn't?

How is the Pennsylvania bank trying to differentiate itself in wealth management? By assembling a team of private bankers to cater to the complex needs of high-net-worth clients.

Recent studies offer a dire outlook for water levels in drought-prone states. Some banks are bracing for this risk with changes to underwriting of real-estate-related loans.

As a growing number of chains go bankrupt, loan charge-offs are rising.

Hove, who spent 11 years on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. board, was the agency's acting chairman three different times during the 1990s. He held several jobs in banking, including chairman and CEO of Minden Exchange Bank & Trust, which had been led by his father.

First Mutual Holding is buying the tiny Blue Grass Federal and keeping its charter. The deal will allow the seller to save costs and maintain its autonomy.

A panel of federal appeals court judges reversed a district court’s decision on the NCUA’s controversial field-of-membership rule, but saw merit in bankers’ claims of potential redlining.

The company has agreed to buy Albany Bancshares, which has four branches near the Iowa border.

The agency is trying to update its rate-cap policy for institutions that fall below "well-capitalized." But it remains to be seen if the proposed changes fully address community bankers' concerns.

The Louisiana company will enter two new markets after it buys the locations.

Community First will pay $40 million in cash for the parent of Affinity Bank.

Competition for deposits is tight, the outlook for loan demand is uncertain, and regulatory relief is slow-moving. Yet community bankers are feeling better about the economy than they have in two years, a Promontory Interfinancial Network survey found.

Lenders insist they will be able to ramp up commercial loans and mortgage refinancings without skimping on underwriting.

Professional Bank and Marquis Bank, both of Coral Gables, have been competing against each other for more than a decade. Now they are merging in hopes of landing larger clients and making better use of technology being developed in Professional's innovation lab.

ZSuite Technologies digitizes a number of services that banks provide to landlords.

The company will pay $113 million for a commercial lender based in its backyard.

With long-term interest rates at historic lows, mortgage refinancing is coming on strong. But that additional revenue may not be enough to offset net interest margin pressures and lost servicing income.