The Kentucky-based bank plans to acquire the $234 million-asset Sumner Bank & Trust in central Tennessee in a transaction expected to close in the fourth quarter.

Two former top bank regulators argue that efforts to eliminate risk from the business of banking is a fool's errand, and say it is time to refocus banks' managers and boards on the business of managing it.

The fintech startup Renaud Laplanche launched seven years ago now works with 200 banks and offers personal loans and a combination debit and credit card. Up next: a secured card that gradually turns into a regular credit card.

A pair of mutual banks in Maryland and New York that sold minority stakes more than a decade ago are pursuing second-step offerings that will result in both becoming fully stock-traded companies.

The success of central bank digital currencies will be directly tied to their usability — by both individuals and businesses.

Lenders in coveted locations with stable deposit bases are bullish about their expansion opportunities despite the shadow the banking crisis and recession fears have cast on the rest of the industry.

The Seattle bank is a victim of the short selling that has rocked the banking industry this year and its stock price doesn't reflect its fundamentals, CEO Mark Mason argues.

After First Citizens acquired SVB in March, HSBC poached 42 bankers, misusing SVB's confidential, proprietary and trade secret information to execute their scheme, according to a complaint filed Monday in federal court in Northern California.

As the Federal Housing Finance Agency considers how to prepare the system for the future, it can keep member liquidity steady while still boosting affordable housing.

Customers of banks that provide small-dollar loans are still turning to higher-cost lenders, according to a recent survey. The significance of the findings has sparked a debate between the payday lending industry and its critics.

Artificial intelligence can help cut bias out of credit models. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should make it easier for lenders to adopt it.

The West Virginia company says COO Jeffrey Jackson will become chief executive in August instead of January. He will succeed Todd Clossin, who will retire earlier than planned and describes Jackson as "well prepared."

During the pandemic, many banks adopted programs that helped struggling families find stability. Make that a permanent strategy.

The bank's new Long Game app rewards users for saving and dangles the chance to win cash prizes.

Community banks tapped the brakes during the first quarter, citing higher interest rates, recession threats and fallout from regional-bank failures. Fed data shows the trend has continued into May, and executives are preaching caution.

Borrowers from certain nonbank lenders that have been identified as magnets for Paycheck Protection Program scams also committed check fraud at elevated rates, according to a new data analysis. Banks could use that kind of data from the pandemic-era government program to spot bad actors.

In recent years, stress tests have not accounted for some very clear real-world risks. This must change immediately.

The Philadelphia bank's CEO says it will wait for a more favorable time to pursue a planned $125 million capital raise, while the leader of an activist group blasted the decision and announced the renewal of proxy and legal fights.