The state Department of Financial Protection and Innovation issued a cease-and-desist order against Nano Banc, saying the troubled bank violated an earlier consent agreement when it replaced five board members and appointed a new CEO without the regulator’s permission.

Eli Tinsley, the bank's chief banking officer, was promoted to president and chief executive.

The Oklahoma bank is eager to take the ground some competitors are ceding in oil and gas financing.

Alloy Labs Alliance, a consortium of community banks, is working with the fintech Payrailz on a project called "Chuck" that would route peer-to-peer payments over different networks, based on which is least expensive for each transaction.

Some established financial technology companies like Robinhood are said to be refusing to accept funds from accounts at young digital-only banks that they say are growing too fast to deter fraud. The companies being blocked respond that it’s an unfair, scattershot approach.

The acquisition would give Avadian, which is based in Birmingham, two more locations in its home state and increase its assets to approximately $1.2 billion.

The consumer bureau asked for public feedback about payment platforms as part of a focus on the Silicon Valley giants’ financial services aspirations. But comment letters so far have been dominated by users complaining that they lost money on the big-bank-owned peer-to-peer network.

The year's biggest storylines included an M&A revival, a reexamination of overdraft fees, a changing of the guard in Washington and the rise of new technologies. Here's a look back.

The Arkansas bank is working with 10 universities' athletic departments to create programs for women it hopes will one day join its ranks.

Worker shortages at call centers and rising concerns about account fees may have contributed to the industrywide decline, according to the authors of a new J.D. Power study. Capital One, which scored highest, benefited from its strength in digital banking.

The Pennsylvania bank run by Sam Sidhu is updating its platform to support real-time payments for cryptocurrency companies and will offer embedded finance and banking-as-a-service to fintechs.

The Louisiana-based Home has agreed to pay $66.6 million for the $445 million-asset bank.

FNB Bank in the hard-hit community of Mayfield lost its headquarters during the catastrophic storms. It and other financial institutions are aiding local residents who are now taking stock of the damage.

Goldman Sachs is boosting its wealth management and consumer banking business as part of a strategy outlined by Chief Executive David Solomon to make it less reliant on trading.

More than 180 community development financial institutions and minority depository institutions will receive the federal funds under a pandemic-era program. “It’s a lifesaver,” a credit union CEO said.

An investor who holds nearly 10% of Pacific Enterprise Bancorp shares urged others to oppose BayCom Corp’s $53 million acquisition offer, arguing that the price was too low. Despite this, a majority of both banks' shareholders voted in favor of the deal.

Its new widget allows consumers to initiate a payment from their phone's home screen instead of opening an app to potentially reveal their full banking details to prying eyes.

The National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions' new campaign highlights $243 billion in fines slapped on Wall Street banks. The group says it's responding to political attacks, but the banking industry says NAFCU is trying to distract from criticism of its tax exemption.

The Atlanta bank said the deal will accelerate its small-business and commercial and industrial lending while expanding its presence in point-of-sale financing.

The $6.7 billion-asset Byline Bancorp plans to invest most of the savings into digital banking.