The factors that drive small banks to accept acquisition offers and the impact those decisions have on their communities must be better understood, according to the Fed’s Michelle Bowman and the FDIC’s Jelena McWilliams.

Fleet and fuel card company FleetCor is adding to its business lines, a strategy that includes an acquisition of Travelliance that will open a lane into airline lodging program management.

The Montana company will pay $135 million for a bank with 10 branches in seven Arizona markets.

A second activist investor is pushing the company's board to find a buyer.

Now that the big, multi-billion dollar payment deals of the past year have closed, the companies must figure out how their new scale can address tasks such as software migrations or data sharing compliance in specific markets.

Warsaw Federal will keep its name and charter after joining First Mutual Holding in Lakewood, Ohio.

The regulator has pledged to put forth a rule on credit union-bank purchases before the end of the year. It's likely to lead to another clash with bankers.

Chairman Rodney Hood has pledged to put forth a rule on CU-bank purchases before the end of the year. It's likely to lead to another clash with bankers.

An initial review determined that lax oversight at Enloe State Bank allowed for the origination of more than 100 allegedly fraudulent or fictitious loans.

The Miami unit of Chile’s Banco de Credito e Inversiones is acquiring Executive National Bank. It bought Miami's TotalBank last year.

The direct threats to the Trump presidency and Boris Johnson's tenure as prime minister of the U.K. create an extra layer of uncertainty for fintechs.

A deal to join the Illinois- and Maine-based institutions was called off because of differences that came up during the due diligence process.

The imprints of vendor consolidation, mobile payments proliferation and voice enablement are continuing to ensure there is “a whole lot of shaking going on” in our industry, writes Strategic Resource Management's Michael Carter.

The North Carolina company agreed to buy the much-smaller Community Financial Holding.

The Maryland company says two recent deals, including its agreement to buy Revere Bank, give it the right amount of coverage across Washington's suburbs.

PayPal must pay a fine to the U.K.’s top financial watchdog for failing to keep its operations completely separate from iZettle while authorities investigated competitive effects of PayPal's purchase of the Sweden-based mobile POS provider.

The major technology companies that have chipped away at incumbent payment businesses face much larger competition from this year’s big processing mergers, but they’ve also bulked up through fundraising and product development.

The company will add nearly a dozen branches in the Maryland suburbs of Washington.

The Mississippi company will pay more than $38 million for Texas First Bancshares.

Three years into the turnaround plan at CIT Group, Ellen Alemany continues to remake the commercial finance company she inherited into more of a traditional bank. The purchase of Mutual of Omaha Bank is another step toward that goal.