The rating agency has revised the long-term issuer default rating for PacWest Bancorp and its banking subsidiary, Pacific Western Bank, from "BBB" to "BBB-" and says it doesn't expect the bank's common equity Tier 1 ratio to bounce back anytime soon.

Rising interest rates, lower stock prices and other headwinds have caused many banks to pump the brakes on dealmaking. But some are betting that these trends will be too short-lived to deter them from engaging in mergers and acquisitions.

Chairman and CEO Craig Dwight is counting on the Indiana company's new president, Thomas Prame, to pursue nonbank acquisition targets after it scooped up more than a dozen banks in the past decade.

Tom Speir, a 13-year company veteran, will be in charge of merger and acquisition efforts at the Alabama bank.

The serial acquirer agreed to pay $488.6 million for Professional Bank, which operates in areas of South Florida that have seen an influx of business activity since the start of the pandemic.

Thomas Prame is leaving Old National Bancorp, which recently merged with his former employer First Midwest Bancorp, to join a smaller rival with aggressive growth plans.

A letter from Democratic senators seeking new details about unauthorized accounts is the latest political headwind for the Minneapolis bank. It comes on the heels of a $37.5 million fine by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Jacqueline Reses, who drove Square Capital's successful application to become an industrial loan company, is now chairman of Lead Bank in Kansas City, Missouri.

Toronto-Dominion Bank is looking to bolster its stateside capital markets business with the acquisition of Cowen. The deal comes even as the Canadian banking giant awaits approval of another merger that would make it a top-six U.S. bank.

The payments company has agreed to acquire EVO Payments for $4 billion and sell off the consumer-focused portions of its Netspend unit as part of an industrywide emphasis on automated business-to-business payments.

The Biden administration is poised to put its stamp on the banking regulatory landscape, but there are few slam-dunk solutions that will satisfy both the industry and a vocal Democratic base.

Toronto-Dominion Bank agreed to buy the U.S. brokerage Cowen Inc. for $1.3 billion in cash, bulking up its presence in American capital markets just months after striking a historic deal to expand its retail operations in the country.

Twitter subpoenaed records from Morgan Stanley and other financial firms as part of its legal fight with Elon Musk over his canceled $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform.

Citigroup’s Mexican unit, Banamex, is likely to attract offers of about $7 billion to $8 billion as the field of bidders narrows, according to people familiar with the matter.

Indiana-based Old National Bancorp says it has invested $1 billion in floors, collars and other credit hedges in case of a sudden shift in interest rate policy.

The deal comes on top of the company’s previously announced agreement to acquire another Wisconsin bank, Denmark Bancshares.

Somerset Savings Bank will convert to a stock-owned bank before merging with Regal Bancorp, the holding company for the $545 million-asset Regal Bank, also in New Jersey.

Under the leadership of new CEO Rob Holmes, the Dallas-based company has embarked upon a top-to-bottom transformation to become the "flagship financial services firm" of the Lone Star State. But can Holmes make progress quickly enough to satisfy impatient investors?

A former Goldman Sachs Group banker was accused of passing insider trading information to a squash buddy, part of a group of nine people charged Monday by federal prosecutors in New York.

During the bank’s second-quarter earnings call, Cort O'Haver, president and CEO, said Umpqua and Columbia still hadn’t received an approval yet but were hoping to complete the integration next year.