Bridgeview Bancorp floated its name with 14 potential buyers, but it only attracted serious interest once it promised to divest a mortgage business that recorded a double-digit decline in fee income last year.

Central National Bank rebranded as Stride Bank to move away from a name with overused words.

The company has agreed to buy Preferred Bancshares in a deal set to close by mid-2019.

"You can't meet customers at the headquarters," CEO Kevin Cummings tells his senior executives.

HomeStreet Bank will attempt to sell its stand-alone mortgage business and portfolio of servicing rights, a move that comes amid growing pressure from an activist investor to exit home lending and concerns about declining demand and regulatory challenges.

They all agree that legislation is needed, but the two approaches being offered are exposing tensions.

Criticism of the National Credit Union Administration is unwarranted given the myriad of abuses banks commit.

While proponents contend the model could help reach the underbanked, there remain many arguments against it.

Now the organizers of American Bank & Trust must raise $20 million to open the state's first new bank since the financial crisis.

Banks and credit unions are experimenting with ways to maximize margins in an environment where the yield curve is flat, depositors want them to pay up and they fear the Fed could actually cut rates.

Members of both parties want to make it easier for legal cannabis businesses to access financial services, but myriad obstacles stand in the way of that goal.

The biggest merger in years is reviving the idea that the industry is headed for a barbell-like shakeout, with very large banks on one end, community banks on the other and very few in between.

The New Jersey bank said it will save millions of dollars by eliminating the jobs as well as selling and leasing back some of its real estate.

OceanFirst in New Jersey shuttered more than a third of its branches but says nearly all the customers stuck with the bank because it trained employees to show customers how to go digital.

The agency's update is good news for banks digesting data suggesting that nonbanks cut into their share of small-business loans during the partial government shutdown.

Rheo Brouillard, the head of SI Financial, finally had a solid offer in hand after more than two years of searching for a buyer. But the resignation 10 days later of the man who made him that offer — Berkshire Hills’ Michael Daly — sent Brouillard scrambling.

The possible replacement for Libor's volatility raises concern about its viability; new Fed governor says community banks punished for crisis the did not cause.

If the government insists on forcing another shutdown, business owners are intent on letting Congress know how much the last one hurt.

In her first speech as a governor, the former community banker and Kansas state regulator highlighted the strengths of smaller institutions and the banking agencies' tailoring efforts.

On Sep. 30, 2018. Dollars in thousands.