Small business owners using Square's payments platform and business tools may soon be asking "Elle" for assistance with customers.

The Pittsburgh bank says it is selling the assets to Federated Investors to focus its PNC Capital Advisors unit on providing outsourced services.

Sound Bank has new management as part of the transaction. It will also get a new name and expand into higher-growth markets.

The Mile High City has been disrupted by a number of big M&A deals, providing an opening for other banks to benefit.

The company will record a $2.1 million pretax gain in the second quarter after selling Summit Insurance Services to the Hilb Group.

Banco Bradesco said it will use the acquired bank to expand its investment offerings in the United States.

Concerns about job losses and political blowback still loom, but the two banks made it through a second day of public hearings hosted by the Fed relatively unscathed and with significant local support.

MidFlorida Credit Union has agreed to buy the $730 million-asset Community Bank & Trust of Florida in Ocala.

Mastercard has agreed to acquire digital bill payment platform Transactis, a deal the card network expects to close during the second quarter of 2019.

Speculation has been in the air about whether TSYS—one of the last large legacy processors—may be next in a big M&A deal after the pairings of FIS-Worldpay and Fiserv-First Data were announced this year.

The Capitola, Calif.-based institution reached the milestone a few months after acquiring another credit union.

Among his many responsibilities in the newly created role, Brian Doubles will be in charge of expanding Synchrony's direct-to-consumer banking business.

British bank NatWest will launch a merchant acquiring service to attract small and midsize businesses in the U.K. and other countries.

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It is comfortable with the deal for MidSouth despite the seller's lingering credit issues, given a shared history and the opportunity to add low-cost deposits.

It just got harder for banks in Georgia to enforce noncompete agreements in employee contracts. For employees of two merging banks, BB&T and SunTrust, the timing couldn’t be better.

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MidSouth had spent the last two years improving credit quality by reducing its exposure to energy credits.

Rising premiums and lengthy earn-back periods have made investors more skeptical than ever about M&A. So the sooner banks are able to convert systems and rebrand, the sooner they'll be able to meet the promised cost-cutting and revenue targets.

The Houston company has already converted the systems and brand from January's acquisition, allowing it to focus more on bringing in business.