Amalgamated Bank in New York, N.Y., has appointed one of its former leaders to temporarily replace its president and chief executive.

Clifton Savings Bancorp (CSBK) in Clifton, N.J., is moving forward with a long-planned second-step conversion.

First Bank in Hamilton, N.J., raised approximately $23 million in its initial public offering, according to a Wednesday press release.

The SBA suspends fees to promote more lending below the $150,000 level.

What did one astronaut say to the other in FirstBank's new ad campaign targeting business customers?

The California-based Pan American Bank takes big pride in its microlending product for immigrants.

Christopher Whalen of Carrington Holdings on the coming evolition of the mortgage market.

Millennials are not only taking on much more debt than previous generations, but they may not ever be able to pay it off in their lifetimes, according to a first-of-its-kind study. The same study also shows that banks can do something to help, though.

One-fourth of bankers surveyed by KPMG expect to become sellers in 2014 as challenges and regulatory scrutiny rise.

When ex-Republic Bank of New York executives Joseph DePaolo and John Tamberlane were sketching out their business plan for what would become Signature Bank, they really had no intention of starting a bank at all.

Simone Lagomarsino has helped turn around a lot of banks, but she'd never seen one in such bad shape. Yet in a phenomenally short amount of time, Lagomarsino has righted the ship at Heritage Oaks Bancorp.

Though many banks have capitalized on the financial crisis, Home BancShares is a leader among that group. It scooped up seven failed banks in Florida and bought two more open, but deeply distressed, ones, a tally few can top.

How nice it is when our capacity for being judgmental starts to be replaced with a capacity for making sound judgments.

From his participation in economic development plans to personally recruiting construction funds and sponsorships for the BOK Center, BOK Financial's retiring CEO, Stanley Lybarger, has been a central figure in the rebirth of downtown Tulsa.

By the time David Marcus became its president last year, PayPal—one of the most successful technology startups of the late 1990s—had taken on the culture of an entrenched player in payments.

He is perhaps banking's leading expert on the subject, but David Saul doesn't much care for the phrase "big data."

In January, customers of the $4.9 billion-asset First Financial Bank in Abilene, Texas, began paying bills by taking a picture of them with a smartphone or tablet. A few months later, U.S. Bank became the first big bank to roll out a photo bill pay service.

Bitcoin has received a lot of attention this year, for all the wrong reasons.

What does it take to be an effective leader? Here's some insight from our bankers of the year, John Stumpf, Simone Lagomarsino, Joseph DePaolo and Johnny Allison.

The 66-year-old chairman of Home BancShares in Conway, Ark., sure does tell it like it is. Here are some of his more colorful quotes and the stories we enjoyed most.