Performance reports

To land and retain millennial customers, mobile banking apps must graduate from simply replicating online banking on a phone to leveraging the native functionality of mobile hardware.

Webster Financial's profits barely grew in the third quarter from a year earlier, as solid revenue gains were offset by increased costs from the Waterbury, Conn., lender's expansion into Boston.

First NBC Bank in New Orleans may have avoided one problem only to run into a much bigger issue.

Home BancShares in Arkansas would rather buy banks that meet its financial parameters than do one large deal to catapult over $10 billion in assets. The bank also spent most of this year idling with M&A so it could prepare for stress testing.

Strong loan growth sparked higher third-quarter earnings at Synchrony Financial, the credit-card issuer that was spun off from General Electric.

TCF Financial in Wayzata, Minn., on Friday reported higher profits, mostly from gains on the sale of auto loans.

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Citizens Financial posted significantly higher profits in the third quarter thanks to a one-time boost to fee income and growth in loans and deposits, though the gains were held down by increases in both expenses and provision for credit losses.

Profit fell at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta during the third quarter because of higher costs for technology and deposit insurance premiums, as well as an unfavorable yearly comparison.

Greg Carmichael, who has been on the job nearly a year as Fifth Third's CEO, has started putting his stamp on the company by aggressively trimming branches in favor of mobile, seeking to build up its consumer credit business and retooling the balance sheet.

Associated Banc-Corp in Green Bay, Wis., reported higher quarterly profit on the strength of tight expense control and strong mortgage banking revenue.

Signature and BankUnited had warned of weakness in their medallion portfolios for months but had resisted taking drastic measures. Things changed when large borrowers started to miss payments.

The California company plans to hire a second chief credit officer to specify monitor commercial lending and specialty lines. At least one analyst said the changes, which also include adjustments to credit policies, calls into question the company's strategic director and growth trajectory.

The company believes it is done making acquisitions in its home state. The next phase of growth will likely involve deals and strategic hiring in large urban markets across the Southeast.

Deterioration in its portfolio of taxi medallion loans combined with some one-time expenses dragged down profits at BankUnited in the third quarter.

Bank of New York Mellon's ability to bring in new business for its massive custody business propelled its quarterly profit.

Signature Bank in New York reported a sharp decline in quarterly profits after suffering steep losses on its Chicago portfolio of taxi medallion loans.

Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati reported higher third-quarter profit on the termination of tax receivables from its Vantiv payments subsidiary and several other one-time items.

Record revenue and a brief respite from merger-related costs helped boost quarterly results at F.N.B. Corp. in Pittsburgh.

BancorpSouth in Tupelo, Miss., reported higher third-quarter earnings after net interest and fee revenue improved from a year earlier.