More than a decade ago, bankers fought Walmart tooth and nail as it made forays into banking. But with Amazon making more moves into financial services, the reaction is very different.

AxiomGo is being offered to customers seeking alternatives to prepaid cards and traditional checking accounts.

As tax reform spurs demand, a rising rate environment is making the short-term loans more appealing to banks.

LGE Community Credit Union has a deal to acquire Georgia Heritage Bank. It's the fourth time this year a credit union has agreed to buy a bank.

Small institutions need to rethink their approach to younger employees, giving them more opportunities and responsibilities — and borrowing from their digital know-how.

A bill to allow captive insurance companies to be reinstated as members of the Federal Home Loan Bank System appears to be dividing the FHLB community.

Rebeca Romero Rainey, while known as compassionate banker and less of a firebrand than her predecessor at the trade group, will take firm stands for small banks on reg relief, innovation and fair play, say those who know her.

The company will also sell $58 million in deposits to West Gate Bank.

The Alabama company will enter Sarasota, Fla., after buying Premier for $52 million.

Ancora Advisors will place a representative on MutualFirst's board in exchange for supporting the company's director nominees and other policies.

The $6 million acquisition will add four businesses with a total of $700 million in assets under management.

More buyers, spurred by increased lending and an improved economy, are pursuing deals for banks with an abundance of cheap deposits.

In an update on the Deposit Insurance Fund, FDIC staff said the fund's ratio of reserves to estimated deposits will likely reach the required 1.35% level by the second half of 2018.

The San Juan company disclosed an error in the way it calculated the provision for losses in its commercial loan book.

Gulfside Bank, which would be based in Sarasota, is angling to become southwest Florida's first new bank in a decade.

Organizers want to open the first new bank in Michigan since 2009, while a third group in Florida has filed a de novo application.

On Dec. 31, 2017. Dollars in thousands.

On Dec. 31, 2017. Dollars in thousands.

Independent Bank Group said the firms had become shareholders after it bought Carlile Bancshares last year.

While optimistic about the economy, bankers at this year's ICBA convention are still concerned about credit unions and other nonbanks, the role of technology, weakness in the agricultural sector and succession planning.