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After the rapid rise of interest rates, election uncertainty and tariff policies stymied borrower demand, some banks' second-quarter results suggest that loan growth may be on its way back.

Since 2022, when Ally Financial decided to heavily invest in women's sports, the popularity of female leagues has exploded. Here's how Ally managed to ride the wave — and what other banks can learn from it.

The Columbus, Ohio-based company plans to acquire Veritex Holdings, which has grown into one of the Lone Star State's biggest commercial banks over the past 15 years.

Bill Martin, a real estate developer and athletics executive who founded the community bank in 1996, said he considers the privately held institution to be "like one of my kids."

The megabank announced it would invest $16 million to grow its footprint in the North Carolina banking mecca.

Deadly flash flooding in Texas serves as a reminder of the tactics scammers and fraudsters use against both victims and charitable onlookers.

Automated systems respond poorly when confronted with edge cases and unfamiliar circumstances. But those are exactly the moments when a customer's trust in a bank is either established, or lost forever.

The House and Senate will need to resolve a slight difference between their versions of the bill before sending it to President Donald Trump for his signature.

New forms of artificial intelligence can take most, if not all, of shopping and checkout out of the hands of humans. Not everybody is going to be comfortable with that, though the payment giant sees travel as a good place to start.

Some banks hope to use M&A as a way to play defense, either because they need to shore up their deposits or because they have aging CEOs and are looking for an exit. But investors aren't wild about the deal math.

Tech leaders explain how they're trying to use artificial intelligence to better understand customers and communicate with them, without seeming robotic.

Main Street Financial's ouster of James VanSickle came three months after its chairman characterized the company's financial performance as being "on the upswing."

The 5-year-old experiment of tying executive compensation to achieving diversity goals appears to be ending. The abrupt shift comes amid the Trump administration's crackdown on DEI.

Freedom Bank is rolling out Freedom@Work, which offers perks for employees of participating companies, as part of a wider strategy to attract more consumer deposits.

Marianne Lake will oversee strategic growth and the company's fast-growing overseas consumer bank. 

Oxford Bank appears poised to reap benefits from a substantial investment in building out its commercial finance subsidiary. The business, which provides credit to companies that aren't a good fit for bank loans, has moved into the banking mainstream over the last 15 years.

The investment follows the success of KeyVAM, a virtual account management platform developed with the fintech for treasury clients and launched last year.