Financial institutions

President Trump is expected to sign legislation soon that would expand the number of farmers who could file under the more lenient Chapter 12. Ag lenders are worried because farm bankruptcies recently rose and the trade war with China could worsen.

Groups seeking to open a new institution will submit preliminary information for review by the National Credit Union Administration.

The Massachusetts senator asked Richard Fairbank in a letter why the bank didn’t detect the breach for nearly four months and how it plans to prevent future cyber intrusions.

The Cincinnati regional bank says it will spend an extra $15 million a year to offer more competitive pay that it hopes will attract talented front-line employees.

Lenders could struggle to reprice deposits fast enough to offset downward pressure from adjustable-rate loans and refinancing.

Melinda McClure and Richard Horn have joined the management team at Old Dominion Bank in northern Virginia after struggling to raise enough capital for their de novo effort.

The Los Angeles unit of Royal Bank of Canada plans to use FilmTrack to handle more complex transactions for major networks, studios and distributors.

China's decision to stop buying U.S. soybeans and let its currency depreciate raised the prospect of further interest rate cuts. That hurt banks slightly more than the rest of the market on what was a bad day for all equities.

Year to date Mar. 31, 2019. Dollars in thousands.

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It’s hard to time the next economic slowdown. But lenders, many with lingering memories of the financial crisis, are taking steps now to limit exposure in commercial real estate, construction and other loan segments.

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Millyard Bank is on a course to open by the end of this year.

The regulators have yet to complete rules on regional bank supervision, community bank capital and other provisions meant to ease institutions' burden.

3Rivers Federal Credit Union in Indiana will pay about $38 million for West End Bank.

The year's second-biggest bank merger created a Midwestern regional with nearly $50 billion in assets, and its CEO and executive vice chairman don't intend to stop there.

Earnings at the U.S. unit of the Spanish banking giant Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria fell 13% from a year earlier.

Banks submit millions of Bank Secrecy Act filings each year, yet only a fraction are valuable to law enforcement.

To combat the notion that regional banks’ tech offerings are inferior, the combined BB&T-SunTrust will have to go “toe-to-toe” with big banks, BB&T chief Kelly King said ahead of shareholder approval of the deal Tuesday.