Practice management

Five contenders, all in their early 30s, are vying for the grand prize: a leadership education package valued at $20,000.

With Hurricane Harvey rapidly making its way toward the Texas coast, lenders and servicers have activated business continuity plans to accommodate pending transactions and provide options and support to existing borrowers affected by the storm.

Many financial institutions have activated their emergency centers, closed branches and stocked ATMs in advance of landfall.

Credit unions are preparing for what is expected to be a major storm with life-threatening storm surge along the coast and dangerous flooding even well inland.

The parent of State Bank in New Hampton has agreed to buy the holding company for Peoples Trust & Savings Bank.

Bank Mutual was still in talks to buy a bank roughly its own size when it began exploring a sale. The move allowed Bank Mutual to quickly find a buyer after its planned acquisition fell through.

From preparing for the next recession and digital disruption to better planning and what millennials want, CUNA Mutual Group’s 2017 Online Discovery Conference covered a lot of ground.

Austin, Texas-based CU has seen growth in auto, mortgage and commercial lending.

Long Game is a mobile app that uses games to encourage its users to build a nest egg. Its example holds lessons for banks that are struggling to capture more of their customers' attention.

Bank of the Ozarks, Home BancShares and Simmons First have used acquisitions and a business-friendly environment in their home state to become regional powers.

Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan has told employees that a third-party review of unauthorized accounts will be published “within a few weeks.”

All critical data to run the CUSO's business operations in the event of a disaster will also be backed up to a location 900 miles away from the firm's offices.

OnlyID, a joint offering from FIS and Equifax, is meant to become consumers’ single sign-on for bank and retail websites and apps. Longstanding relationships may give it a better shot at achieving network effect than previous attempts.

OnlyID, a joint offering from FIS and Equifax, is meant to become consumers’ single sign-on for bank and retail websites and apps. Longstanding relationships may give it a better shot at achieving network effect than previous attempts.

Chief executives welcome new professionals to their management teams and more new hires, promotions and honors.

To head off ethical concerns often raised by university-corporate partnerships, Bank of the West is not paying kickbacks for accounts. Instead it is cultivating student input and chipping in for scholarships, internships and emergency food assistance.

Bryn Mawr Bank has launched a mutual fund at a time when heightened competition and regulatory oversight are the norm.

Arvest agreed to pay nearly $400 million in cash for a bank with 42 branches in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.

Hackers are stealing enthusiasts’ phone numbers, then changing the passwords to clean out their financial accounts; bank makes pledge to human rights groups.

The $1.5 billion-asset company agreed to buy Southern Missouri Bancshares to expand into two strategically important markets.