Good old-fashioned commercial credit analysts are a dying breed, David Nicholson says. Community banks need them to stay competitive in C&I, but training courses have been cut back. So he’s on a mission to teach as many students as he can.

The proposed Piermont Bank would be based in Midtown Manhattan. It is the second de novo being planned in New York.

While the looming loan-loss accounting standard has been criticized for its complexity and the potential cost to implement, some advocates believe it could also lead to better pricing decisions and improve communication within a bank.

While Workers United will no longer own more than half of Amalgamated's stock, it will remain the bank's biggest investor.

Montana Sen. Jon Tester was among a handful of Democrats central to passing regulatory relief this spring. Bankers need to back his re-election regardless of party affiliation.

Gateway Mortgage's owners plan to merge the mortgage lender into Farmers Exchange Bank.

While most acquirers are content to let cost savings trickle down to the bottom line, WSFS will use the purchase of Beneficial to reinvent itself.

The Delaware company plans to reinvest savings from the $1.5 billion acquisition to upgrade technology and delivery channels.

The former Trump campaign chair got $16 million in mortgages from The Federal Savings Bank. His trial is shedding new light on what the bank's CEO allegedly received in return.

N.B.C. Bancshares' deal for Bank of Cushing will give it two branches an hour outside of Tulsa.

Bank organizers are picking one another's brains about hiring decisions, applications and raising capital as part of the monthslong effort to secure charters.

The family that owns KleinBank negotiated for employee incentives for nonrelatives and retention awards as part of the Minnesota bank's proposed sale to Old National.

Bankers at Sonoma Valley Bank were convicted of bank fraud, money laundering and other offenses.

A $52 million-asset African-American-owned bank in South Carolina is hoping its efforts can be expanded to help underbanked consumers nationwide.

BofI has agreed to buy $3 billion of deposits from Nationwide Bank as part of the insurance giant's exit from retail banking. The deal comes three years after BofI bought H&R Block Bank's deposits.

Tekalign Gedamu, who would chair Marathon International Bank, says that Zekarias Tamrat is bad-mouthing the de novo effort following his dismissal and a subsequent payment disagreement. Tamrat was slated to be the bank's president.

Tory Nixon, who became Umpqua's chief banking officer this spring, is trying to drive more customers to use mobile banking (only 15% do so now industrywide) without alienating them in the process.

The Senate has no reason to stall the nomination of Michelle “Miki” Bowman to fill the central bank’s community banker seat.

Zekarias Tamrat blamed the proposed Marathon International Bank's chairman and directors for delays in getting its application approved.

A task force created by the American Bankers Association asserts that applying for a bank charter is too time-consuming and that some de novo rules are too rigid.