Strategic planning

PNC CEO Bill Demchak said Wednesday that regulatory processes and enforcement actions take up half of the time that the company's board spends together. Those rules are on deck for a makeover.

The superregional bank inked its merger agreement with FirstBank just two weeks after it saw the first draft of the agreement.

Fifth Third announced it plans to buy the Dallas bank in a $10.9 billion transaction.

The Toronto-based bank announced enterprise-wide and business-specific revenue and expense targets, almost exactly one year after it was hit with more than $3 billion in fines and an asset cap for money-laundering-related blunders.

The Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, community bank agreed to acquire 1st Colonial Bancorp in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, in a $101 million deal that would help deepen its presence in greater Philadelphia.

QNB's proposed $41 million deal to acquire The Victory Bancorp in Limerick, Pennsylvania, is set to create a community bank with $2.4 billion of assets.

AIB was on the verge of collapse when it was bailed out by the Irish government in 2010. Why did its turnaround, which hit a key milestone earlier this year, take so long?

The Denver-based bank-holding company's pending acquisition of Vista Bancshares in Dallas is an opportunity to expand into key fast-growing Texas markets and deepen its talent bench, CEO Tim Laney told analysts.

The Charlotte-based megabank announced that it had appointed two business leaders to be co-presidents of the bank, and elevated its chief financial officer to serve as executive vice president.

Bill Demchak said at an industry conference that PNC effectively "bought Colorado" with its recently announced plan to acquire the $27 billion-asset FirstBank.