Mutual banks

Kennebec Savings Bank will have $1.3 billion in assets after it absorbs Kennebec Federal Savings and Loan Association of Waterville.

Eastern Bank in Boston could raise as much as $1.7 billion to spend on acquisitions and technology investments that it says will be necessary to respond to customers' increasing preference for digital tools.

Seneca-Cayuga Bancorp's capital levels have fallen steadily since peaking in 2013.

Jonathan Dowst will become president in July and CEO a year later.

A North Carolina group is trying to take regulators' cue to work together. A successful effort could encourage others to follow its lead.

The company will merge Fidelity Savings and Loan and Washington Savings Bank into its own bank.

The company will enter three counties in its home state after it buys Roselle.

Julieann Thurlow says Reading Cooperative Bank in Massachusetts is well positioned to help immigrants and millennials. Technology is crucial to serving both groups, she says.

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

Joseph Campanelli, CEO of Needham Bank, wants to be ready to scoop up mutuals struggling with rising costs and yield curve challenges.

First Mutual Holding is buying the tiny Blue Grass Federal and keeping its charter. The deal will allow the seller to save costs and maintain its autonomy.

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

Provident Bancorp, one of the nation's oldest active banks, is setting the stage to become a fully stock-owned company.

The Massachusetts mutual hired two former bankers from Blue Hills Bancorp, which was recently sold to Independent Bank.

After converting to a mutual savings bank in 2013, the former CU is set to become a fully stock-owned company.

The former credit union will shed its mutual status when it becomes a fully stock-owned company.

Hometown, which agreed to buy Millbury Savings Bank, has already completed one acquisition this year and has another pending.

Readers weigh legislative proposals on pot banking, consider JPMorgan's new digital coin, debate the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s brokered deposit rules and more.

While proponents contend the model could help reach the underbanked, there remain many arguments against it.

Hometown Financial will merge Abington Bank into Pilgrim Bank. The combined bank will be run by Andrew Raczka, Abington's CEO.