The Columbus, Ohio, bank plans to cut the price to consumers who spend more than they have from $36 to $15. In another change designed to help customers who live paycheck to paycheck, it will start offering instant access to check deposits.

The sale of Partners Bancorp in Maryland to OceanFirst Financial in New Jersey was expected to be approved by midyear. But regulators' reviews of the applications are taking longer than expected, meaning the companies can no longer “give any assurance as to the timing” of the deal's completion, Partners says.

Newtek, the No. 2 originator of Small Business Administration 7(a) loans, is buying a single-branch bank in New York. The news sent its stock price tumbling as shareholders revolted, but CEO Barry Sloane is staying the course.

Numerous unaccredited and loosely regulated schools are offering buy now/pay later products as a payment option for students, according to the Student Borrower Protection Center. Its report, which called out PayPal, Klarna, Affirm and Afterpay, comes as the CFPB is considering how to regulate the sector.

The Augusta, Maine, credit union has promoted its executive vice president, Stephen Wallace, to succeed H. Tucker Cole, who plans to retire in June.

The $7.6 billion deal was originally expected to close in the fourth quarter of last year, but the banks had pushed back their deadline until June. Once the merger is complete, the combined bank will have more than $200 billion in assets.

The deal with HBI Employees Credit Union follows two other mergers Spire struck last year that brought it to $1.9 billion of assets.

The Louisiana-based Barksdale has agreed to purchase HomeBank of Arkansas. It is the fourth deal involving the sale of a bank to a credit union in less than two weeks.

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Tricia Szurgot is joining Securityplus from First Commonwealth Federal Credit Union in Pennsylvania.

The $837 million-asset Commerce State is one of the largest banks ever to agree to be sold to a credit union.

Toronto-Dominion Bank, which earlier this week announced a $13.4 billion acquisition to expand in the U.S., got a lift from loan growth at home.

The $142 million deal would vault the buyer from the 21st-largest bank in Philadelphia to the 12th largest.

Titi Cole will run the megabank’s legacy franchises division, which contains consumer businesses that Citi is looking to sell or wind down in other countries. The exits are part of CEO Jane Fraser’s efforts to reshape the bank.

TriCo Bancshares said regulators will allow it to finalize its $165.6 million acquisition of Valley Republic. The deal was initially expected to close last year.

LendingClub is resisting pressure from stakeholders to jump into cryptocurrency as it completes a bank acquisition and works to introduce more traditional financial products.

The Columbus, Ohio, bank has agreed to buy an investment banking and advisory firm that caters to midsize companies to "accelerate" the growth of its capital markets unit.

The Canadian banking giant established a nine-month window to finish its $13.4 billion purchase of First Horizon, which could be challenging given the tighter regulatory scrutiny of bank M&A. After November, the price tag will go up.

Robins Financial Credit Union is acquiring the $430 million-asset Persons Banking Co. The deal, announced Monday, comes less than a week after Georgia’s Own Credit Union in Atlanta said it is buying Vinings Bank in Smyrna.

The New York bank said it called off the acquisition of Amalgamated Bank of Chicago because it has been unable to obtain regulatory approval. But the seller expressed hope that the deal could still move forward.