Victor Karpiak stepped down as CEO of First Financial in 2013 after years of wrangling with a prominent activist investor.

The companies have teamed up on a product to help banks, especially small ones, give customers more accurate insights into their own financial health.

United Community, Synovus, Cadence and others stand to gain lenders and customers even if BB&T flawlessly integrates the $28 billion acquisition.

Hometown, which agreed to buy Millbury Savings Bank, has already completed one acquisition this year and has another pending.

The Seattle company has a letter of intent to sell its home loan centers to Homebridge Financial Services.

Ronald Rubin, who was a CFPB enforcement attorney, will head an office overseeing nearly 200 state-chartered banks.

The drudgery of filling out forms and changing bills prevents many customers from swapping banks. One fintech has simplified that exchange, and banks are willing to pay it to deliver them new customers.

The agency wants to increase the maximum SBA Express loan to $1 million from $350,000 to pump up volume.

Alan White, who will step down in April, and Jeremy Ford have served as the company's co-CEOs since September 2016.

Tiny banks are recording healthy returns by carefully managing expenses and credit quality.

Midwest BankCentre in St. Louis, with the help of a stable of fintechs, started Rising Bank to keep up with big banks in the hunt for deposits and millennial customers.

Year to date through Sep. 30, 2018. Dollars in thousands.

Some companies on SourceMedia’s Best Fintechs to Work For list offer their employees extra time off to live boldly.

Richard Marotta, who became Berkshire Hills' CEO after his predecessor's abrupt resignation, says his top priorities are squeezing more profit from existing operations and improving corporate culture.

The federal banking agencies will not hold a hearing on a proposal to reduce the number of residential real estate transactions that require an appraisal.

The Indiana company will pay $68 million for Citizens First.

The company will close a dozen branches, including eight in Colorado.

As large banks put stronger fraud monitoring and authentication technology in place, fraudsters have been turning to small banks, like Kennebunk Bank on the coast of Maine. Here's how it fought back.

Mel Watt calls FHFA watchdog “sexist,” after it concludes he’s guilty of sexual harassment. State Street sues the "Fearless Girl" sculptor. Banks big and small face mounting pressure on gender pay gap and board diversity. And another top 40 U.S. bank might get a female CEO.

Bankers are eager to expand there through M&A, de novos or other means, encouraged by strong employment and disruption created by recent consolidation.