Practice management

More than 20 different states are part of the Juntos Avanzamos network, with dozens of CUs participating from across the country.

Robust growth in net interest income, combined with a lower provision for loan losses, helped boost Webster Financial Corp.'s profits to a record $62.4 million in the third quarter, 26% higher than a year earlier.

First Reliance in South Carolina, which recently announced its first bank acquisition, is angling to take advantage of disruption caused by bigger mergers in the Carolinas.

"I’m not going to step aside because I’m an asset for this company," Tim Sloan said Wednesday, rejecting arguments by some Senate Democrats that he is too tied to the phony-accounts scandal.

First Bank will enter a new market and gain access to low-cost deposits after it completes the acquisition.

TruChoice Federal Credit Union’s SMILE program is improving members’ lives and saving them money.

Profits at the custody bank rose 16%, but it announced a new streamlining program that is expected to generate yearly savings of $250 million by 2020.

The company, which plans to change its name to Hancock Whitney next year, reported increased profit that reflected balance sheet growth.

Frederick Waddell will retire as CEO of the Chicago custody bank at the end of 2017 but will remain chairman.

Debbie Meekins is running First Community Bank in Santa Rosa while simultaneously taking steps to rebuild her own life after her home of 19 years went up in flames.

Spokane Teachers Credit Union CEO Tom Johnson will be succeeded by Ezra Eckhardt, effective Jan. 1, 2018.

The San Francisco bank hopes to win middle-market business from its new commercial offices in Cleveland and Dallas.

Harms succeeds longtime CEO Craig Mellenthien, who retired after 23 years at the credit union.

Howard Bancorp CEO Mary Ann Scully was so keen on buying 1st Mariner that she met with a representative of one of the Baltimore company's three largest shareholders before meeting with management, and she kept talking with them. It worked.

Saying farewell after 25 years with LAFCU and 43 total years in the credit union industry.

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The company agreed to buy Commercial Bancshares for $59 million in stock.

Total revenue rose less than 1% to $21.8 billion, but expenses declined 2.5% to $13.1 billion. That computed to the highest profit at Bank of America in six years.

Banks such as Citigroup, Regions and TD have decided they need to offer mobile customers truly customized experiences. They are experimenting with different ways of doing so that come across as helpful without being intrusive.

Bob Ramsey, who had worked for FBR Capital Markets for more than a decade, will handle investor relations and strategic planning at Customers.