Several community banks that put buybacks on hold during the pandemic’s earliest days have recently authorized new plans, signaling an easing in regulatory pressure and greater comfort with capital levels.

The New Mexico company had recently hired James Crotty, a former director at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, to serve as its co-CEO.

A New York CDFI is halfway to its $100 million fundraising goal for a fund that would put deposits in Black-owned banks and make loans to key businesses or projects. It hopes the moves will improve availability of capital and access to mainstream financial products.

Several community banks are warning Congress that their participation in the Paycheck Protection Program could cause them to cross a threshold that may lead to, among other things, supervision by the CFPB and a cap on interchange fees.

The New Jersey company will add three branches in the northern part of the state as part of the transaction.

The company also plans to shed some corporate office space by the end of this year.

The company is selling $355 million of Paycheck Protection Program credits to The Loan Source, a nonbank lender that is also buying PPP loans from three other banks.

The purchase-and-assumption transaction, if approved, would become the first credit union-bank merger in Alabama.

Many community banks, like Peoples Community in Wisconsin, say they proceeded despite the technological challenges presented by social distancing because the crisis has exposed the shortcomings of their digital systems.

The state's financial regulator sent a subpoena to an auto-title lender seeking information about its partnership with a Utah bank, marking the first public disclosure of an investigation into efforts to evade a 2019 law capping interest rates on many consumer loans.

The California company has acquired Mid-Central Federal Savings Bank, which is converting to a national bank.

Piedmont Federal Savings is working with historically Black colleges and universities to hire and train prospective commercial lenders and managers who better reflect the community it serves.

The move is part of the effort by lenders and other companies to promote racial equity and be more sensitive to the stresses on front-line employees. It also coincides with rising concerns about the postal system’s ability to handle the rush of absentee ballots.

The move is part of the effort by banks and other companies to promote racial equity and be more sensitive to the stresses on front-line employees.

A state judge deciding a dispute between Spencer Savings and an investor said the mutual must get an independent review before switching from a savings association to a savings bank. The ruling may complicate mutuals' efforts to make more business loans.

CIT inherited the business with its purchase earlier this year of Mutual of Omaha Bank.

The deal continues Sound's push into markets north of its Tacoma headquarters.

Year to date through Jun. 30, 2020. Dollars in thousands.

Year to date through Jun. 30, 2020. Dollars in thousands.

The Justice Department alleges that the bankers worked with “higher-ranking bank officials” at Washington Federal Bank for Savings in Chicago to falsify records and hide funds before the bank's December 2017 collapse.