Whether it was their nimble shift to digital, or willingness to interact in new ways with customers in branches, bank employees have met head-on the business challenges posed by the outbreak.

Origin Bank is rolling out software to let customers curb or shut down account-data sharing with third-party apps. In the process, it hopes to learn a lot about client behavior and preferences that it could use in its own products.

Michael Rechin will step down at the end of this year. The Indiana company tapped CFO Mark Hardwick as its next CEO, while Michael Stewart, its chief banking officer, will become president.

The West Virginia company has an agreement to buy WinFirst Financial for $21.7 million in cash.

The American Association of Bank Directors is setting up an on-the-job training program to help banks reach a younger and more diverse group of prospective employees.

The central bank must engage core processors, community banks and The Clearing House if it wants to move quickly on building out its FedNow system.

The company would also gain a branch near Dallas with the proposed acquisition.

As part of American Banker's Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance program, we have selected five “Top Teams” for 2020. Howard Bancorp is one of the team honorees.

The bank has agreed to pay $158 million for Standard AVB Financial, which has 17 branches in Pennsylvania.

The moves are intended to offset a protracted period of historically low interest rates and expectations of higher credit costs in 2021.

A deal between Dime Community and Bridge Bancorp was delayed, and nearly derailed, by the coronavirus outbreak. Here’s how the two sides kept it on track.

The company, which expressed concerns about the validity of some of the loans it bought, renegotiated a lower price and protections from the seller involved in the deal.

New Enterprise Bank would focus on venture capital and private equity firms that are involved in investment between China and the San Francisco area.

The central bank must engage core processors, community banks and The Clearing House if it wants to move quickly on building out its FedNow system.

The company also found a buyer for its portfolio of equipment finance loans as it tries to clean up credit and refocus on middle-market lending.

Partnering with the account-opening software firm Mantl, the New Jersey bank created a CD campaign that helped fund its Paycheck Protection Program lending.

The North Carolina bank deployed Finxact's new technology, which runs on Amazon Web Services, to make Paycheck Protection Program loans and will use it next to offer business savings accounts and CDs.

Lenders should be subjected to tough reviews of their readiness for economic threats posed by severe weather, required to disclose risks lurking in their portfolios and perhaps forced to set aside extra capital, a government study recently recommended.

The company will shutter a fifth of its locations, while reinvesting some of the savings in its digital banking platform.

A collaboration between the two industries to help voters cast absentee ballots has been approved to continue through the general election.