News Topic: Community banking

The company will pay $142 million for Carolina Alliance Bank three months after buying NewDominion in Charlotte, N.C. ... Read full article

Maria Tedesco's duties will include oversight of commercial, business and consumer banking at Union Bank & Trust. ... Read full article

Kanas, who returned to the banking industry as part of the recapitalization of the failed BankUnited, will relinquish the company's chairmanship at the end of this year. ... Read full article

The Los Angeles company will also gain its first branches in Nevada after completing the $467 million acquisition. ... Read full article

For each of the last three years, Choice Financial has unveiled an elaborate practical joke on April 1 as part of a quirky marketing campaign. ... Read full article

With the large storm threatening coasts in Virginia and the Carolinas, some banks are planning to shutter branches for the rest of this week. ... Read full article

Happy State Bank and others use rewards, rather than punishments, to encourage employees to stay vigilant and catch fraud and cybersecurity issues. ... Read full article

The proposed rule is another step in the agency's implementation of a regulatory relief bill that President Trump signed into law in May. ... Read full article

A family-owned community bank in Oklahoma is testing a Spotify-like service by fintech Meen that allows customers to pay $9.95 a month to obtain digital banking services. ... Read full article

A community bank in Pennsylvania made up its own holiday of sorts — including a product demonstration and a 1982 DeLorean reminiscent of "Back to the Future" — to encourage bank customers to try out new fintech features. ... Read full article

Casey Crawford, CEO of Movement Mortgage, bought First State Bank in Virginia last year. He has since injected more capital into the bank in an effort to reinvent it. ... Read full article

A companywide survey at First National Bank Alaska found that employees wanted more training and development. This is how the bank responded. ... Read full article

Many workers get extra days off to celebrate all kinds of things, from their birthdays to a good regulatory exam score, or as a reward for charitable giving and other community involvement. ... Read full article

First Bank Financial Centre's Mark Mohr personalizes work anniversary cards by drawing sketches on them highlighting employees' interests. ... Read full article

Club owners used to be able to get bank loans, but that changed as the de-risking wave reshaped banks' relationships with pot firms, exotic dancers and many others. Whether the taboo can or should last becomes a big question as adult entertainment ... Read full article

The French banking giant will lower its stake in First Hawaii below 20% when the secondary offering is completed. ... Read full article

Last summer, the Wausau, Wis., bank combined two employee groups to form the ICEBreakers. Its mission is to support outstanding customer service and foster a positive workplace culture. ... Read full article

If Gov. Jerry Brown signs the legislation headed to his desk, it would be the first law of its kind in the U.S. It is designed to allow small-business owners to make comparisons between offers in the often bewildering world of online business lending. ... Read full article