WSFS is implementing a new internal audit program and shoring up the succession planning in its risk department.

Stopping house fires, reducing poverty, protecting consumers and other ways credit unions are giving back.

The North Carolina company could issue $200 million in new securities over time to fund acquisitions and other investments.

Property Assessed Clean Energy loans can no longer be offered in unincorporated areas of Kern County, Calif. The controversial loans, meant to promote energy efficiency, began in California and are now offered in a number of states.

Bank of the Ozarks recently dissolved its holding company in a move that goes against modern banking strategy. There are, however, strong arguments for other institutions to follow the bank's lead.

The Arkansas bank bought C1 Financial in Florida and Community & Southern Holdings in Georgia last year.

The Treasury Department will take a huge hit when Cecil Bancorp sells its bank, while 1st Mariner Bank in Baltimore will see its equity stake completely wiped out. Cecil opted for bankruptcy court when it was unable to resolve an impasse over its trust-preferred stock.

The former Triumph Capital Advisors doubled its business by acquiring Doral Bank's CLO assets; Dodd-Frank’s “skin in the game” regs spurred its spinoff as a vehicle of the deep-pocketed Pine Brook.

Severn said it believes Mid Maryland Title Co. will complement its existing dealings in mortgages, commercial banking and commercial real estate.

Sponsorships, celebrations, education and other ways credit unions are giving back.

The region is responsible for a third of all bank sellers — and more than half of the industry's overall deal volume.

Expansions, donations and 500 pounds of crawfish.

ESSA Bank & Trust has successfully worked with a federal program that helps former prisoners in some eastern Pennsylvania towns get back into society, and it plans to expand the program to the Philadelphia market.

Community banks are less likely to close branch locations than their larger counterparts. But those branches should mix technology with the homespun local flavor customers have come to expect.

Online and mobile banking are essential elements in 21st-century financial services, but there’s more to banking than digital transactions.

Green Bancorp has pivoted from the troubled energy-lending market to SBA loans, which are appealing to more small banks because they can be sold at a premium and are getting more support from Washington.

Scholarships, groundbreakings, donations to worthwhile causes and other ways credit unions are giving back to the communities they serve.

Sellers may shy away from partnering with banks that rely too heavily on one individual for their success, so buyers must show they are ready to handle unexpected departures or illnesses involving key personnel.

It might seem unusual for an Old National Bancorp to lure away a regional executive from the much larger Fifth Third, but not in wealth management, where competitiveness can be as much about emphasis as size.

Its agreement to sell two branches to another Louisiana bank is part of a broader plan by MidSouth's new CEO to eliminate seven branches.