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The Canadian bank twice sweetened its bid for PrivateBancorp, raising the stakes. Now it must gain traction in the hypercompetitive Chicago market while hunting for more acquisitions.

Compliance, security and data analytics were the themes at this year’s New York FinTech Innovation Lab demo day.

Operational changes may be enticing to investors, but they threaten the very foundation of marketplace lending, potentially shutting out those the burgeoning sector was meant to serve.

CIBC plans to spend two years focusing on internal growth at PrivateBank except for some targeted wealth management acquisitions, but ultimately capital outlays or takeovers will be necessary to meet its growth ambitions.

Readers weigh in on chatbots, Amazon’s physical footprint expansion plans, alternative credit data and more.

Former Mellon Financial CEO Frank Cahouet is credited with leading the Pittsburgh company out of a difficult financial period. He was also CEO when Mellon acquired the mutual fund manager Dreyfus, and he rejected Bank of New York’s early attempts to buy Mellon.

The CEO of Citi’s innovation group says she and her staff of industry outsiders are driving change within the 215-year-old bank.

One of the biggest challenges after a merger is deciding which people to keep and which to let go. Learning to identify certain habits and skills could simplify those decisions.

Future Family plans to differentiate itself by tying financing with a suite of products women need as they pursue fertility treatment.

Traditional partnerships with lenders have been eroded by compliance strains and new incentives to control more of the homebuying transaction.

When brewery software provider OpHouse strated to grow, it turned to its CEO's connections in the tech incubator community to find a new payments gateway

Oil prices are dropping again, but some lenders think now is the time to recommit to energy lending as long as they underwrite them a certain way for certain borrowers in certain regions.

Customers of the Pittsburgh company were unable to access their accounts via online and mobile channels for several hours on Tuesday.

On March 31, 2017. Dollars in thousands

On March 31, 2017. Dollars in thousands

Beacon Community Bank seeks to become the first new bank in South Carolina in roughly a decade.

Narcissistic biases can lead us to favor those who look like us or have similar backgrounds or other common bonds. This inevitably affects the quality of hiring and risk management decisions.

Zack Gipson, USAA’s chief innovation officer, also discusses the challenges of bringing a human touch to digital channels in a brief but candid Q&A.

Pinnacle Financial Partners closed in on $20 billion in assets by buying BNC. It now has to integrate the North Carolina bank, while finding ways to boost profit and adapt to increased regulatory burden.

Readers chime in on the GSE conservatorships, bitcoin’s future, regulatory relief for regional banks, a recent Supreme Court ruling on debt collection, and more.