When Washington Federal last rebranded, it was to signal its shift from a savings and loan association to a commercial bank. This time around, it's to reflect geographic diversity and its desire to be viewed as a bank. ... Read full article
The factors that drive small banks to accept acquisition offers and the impact those decisions have on their communities must be better understood, according to the Fed’s Michelle Bowman and the FDIC’s Jelena McWilliams. ... Read full article
Good customer service, layered with new technology, gives community banks an advantage over big banks. ... Read full article
It's the latest move by Radius to extend its banking-as-a-service offering to fintech partners. ... Read full article
The agency’s Small Business Investment Company program is slumping, and Congress is pressuring its top executive, Joseph Shepard, to get it back on track or step aside. ... Read full article
The new regulation will allow more flexibility for board directors and senior managers to serve at multiple institutions. ... Read full article
Julieann Thurlow says Reading Cooperative Bank in Massachusetts is well positioned to help immigrants and millennials. Technology is crucial to serving both groups, she says. ... Read full article
Dorothy Savarese will remain the Massachusetts thrift's chairman and CEO. ... Read full article
Jelena McWilliams told community bankers that policymakers should be a resource for banks trying to adopt new technology. ... Read full article
Surety's first online bank, booyah, is aimed at college students and young grads. ... Read full article
The company could raise as much as $158 million by selling shares to the public. ... Read full article
More community bankers now say that cost of funds, not regulatory expense, poses the biggest threat to profits, according to a new survey. ... Read full article
A second activist investor is pushing the company's board to find a buyer. ... Read full article
The Montana will pay $135 million for a bank with 10 branches in seven Arizona markets. ... Read full article
The transition to Stein from Hadley Robbins is the result of a multiyear succession process, the Tacoma, Wash., company said. Robbins had succeeded the late Melanie Dressel. ... Read full article
Gulf Capital Bank has received conditional approval from state and federal officials and could be up and running late this year or early next year, its organizers say. ... Read full article
Bankers are expected to field numerous questions on third-quarter earnings calls about the threat of shrinking loan yields, stubbornly high deposit prices and what they're going to do about them. ... Read full article
Ernest Pinner, who co-founded the Florida company in 1999, will become non-executive chairman in January. ... Read full article
Caught in the middle of a credit-subsidy debate, the program would have shut down on Tuesday without congressional action. ... Read full article
Warsaw Federal will keep its name and charter after joining First Mutual Holding in Lakewood, Ohio. ... Read full article
