The Houston company doesn't expect any material impact on its commercial-and-industrial book, though there is potential risk tied to residential mortgages. Management, meanwhile, has started rolling out programs to help customers recover.

Readers sound off on flood insurance costs, states’ consumer protection efforts, a bank’s local farming project, the dismissal of a CFPB lawsuit, and more.

United Community Bank of West Kentucky took the harrowing experience of one of its employees as an opportunity to improve the benefits it offers.

Financial Institutions will incorporate Robshaw & Julian into another firm it bought early last year.

JPMorgan Chase's Amber Baldet shares how she got interested in technology; Credit Suisse’s Laura Hemrika talks microfinance; and a few of our Best Banks to Work For have female CEOs.

Scholarships, donations for cancer research and other ways the movement is giving back.

The Fed's order noted that Sterling had clarified errors in its Community Reinvestment Act data before receiving a "satisfactory" rating from the OCC.

Culture is key at Washington Trust, as it is at many of the 75 banks in our Best Banks to Work For rankings. Having a custom word to describe its community-oriented philosophy helps fuel conversations about it, and letting employees personalize the meaning (no scripts here) fuels a sense of empowerment and enthusiasm.

Nearly all branches in storm-affected areas were still closed a week after New Orleans' levees broke, but regulators and bankers went to work opening new emergency branches and taking other steps to get institutions operating again.

The agency has a relatively new program designed to quickly get funds into disaster-stricken areas. The problem is that many bankers don't know it exists.

Big banks’ power and influence in Washington ensures that their interests are front and center. But they should spend more of their money on programs and services that engender trust with customers.

Here’s a community bank that is growing goodwill with local residents — literally. The staff at an Independence Bank branch in Hopkins County, Ky., tends an acre of farmland before and after work, with their crops going to help feed the needy.

Heartland Bank had been operating under a regulatory order from the Fed since December.

The company, which has faced pressure to sell from an activist investor, had been operating with an interim leader since December.

Several banks and industry groups are pledging money to help bankers and their clients recover from the hurricane and its aftermath.

In the coming year, bankers in Puerto Rico will need to keep an eye on how steep cuts in government spending will affect the island’s consumers, says José Rafael Fernández, CEO of OFG Bancorp.

Safety first, counseling and maybe massages later. For most banks, the goal after a robbery is to restore normalcy. But how they go about it varies, from requiring employees to return to the scene to enlisting colleagues who have had a similar experience to provide support.

Their immediate effort is to ensure colleagues and clients are safe and that banking services are available to hurricane victims. The next big issue is preparing for the financial hit banks and customers will take from wind and water damage.

Blackwell, the longtime Washington bureau chief, will succeed Marc Hochstein, who is leaving the company in September.

Stopping learning loss during the summer, expanding branch networks, furthering students' education and other ways credit unions are giving back.