PrecisionLender, the digital banking software vendor's largest acquisition to date, sells sales coaching software.

The more things change in small-business lending, the more they stay the same, going back as far as 3,000 years. But in this book excerpt, Karen Mills, former head of the Small Business Administration, predicts momentous changes ahead.

The Dallas company said it should be able to avoid restating past financial results. It also reported higher quarterly earnings helped by increased mortgage activity.

Taking a page from fintech competitors, banks have worked to enrich the small-business app experience.

The case — the card issuer's third in six years — is an example of the legal peril that banks and other companies continue to face over the use of automated phone calls for debt collection and other purposes.

Digit is applying its automated-savings techniques to the growing problem of student loan debt.

The National Credit Union Administration board member is requesting comment on a proposal to create new consumer compliance measures for "large, complex credit unions."

The credit they received in the third quarter is helping to soften the blow from falling net interest margins and weakening loan demand.

The Tennessee company, which was outbid in an effort to buy a North Carolina bank earlier this year, will pay $41 million for a branch network in the middle part of its home state.

Consumer identities are becoming increasingly digital and more prone to privacy risks. Lawmakers cannot sit idle.

The program will be called Bucks for Buckeyes and will be offered in partnership with the Minnesota Credit Union Network.

Credit unions in the Garden State are frequently at the bottom of national rankings for key financial metrics. Further consolidation is likely needed to help bolster these results.

The Pennsylvania company will pay $346 million for MutualFirst Financial.

Startups are increasingly expanding into new areas with their bank partners in an effort to broaden their customer base and bring products to market faster.

Executives at banks in California say there's only so much they can do until the flames subside.

Many small banks remain skeptical of the payments network because it is owned and operated by big banks and they are waiting for the Federal Reserve to launch a rival service.

It's difficult to recruit and retain talent amid low unemployment, while uncertainty about GSE and BSA reform makes planning harder, bankers said at the ABA convention.

Laurie Stewart, a former credit union CEO and incoming chair of the American Bankers Association, says a string of bank sales to credit unions supports the case that the latter's tax-exempt status should be eliminated.

Congress should get behind the Fed's effort to launch a real-time payments service instead of getting in its way.