Lending

Ask 453 bankers their forecasts on loan demand and the economy, or their feelings about the BB&T-SunTrust merger, pot banking as well other hot issues, and a clear picture emerges. Promontory Interfinancial Network recently did just that, and here our five takeaways from the results.

Community banks in the state have struggled to attract the funds to meet surging loan demand, but that could change now that a new law has made it easier for them to accept government deposits.

Senators dove into how to ensure housing finance reform serves lenders of all sizes, just as the Trump administration moved closer to crafting its own GSE plan.

Banks that gather deposits through branches generally pay lower deposit premiums than those that solicit deposits online. So what happens if long-standing restrictions on brokered deposits are relaxed?

Loan demand is finally picking up after several lackluster quarters. Banks' big challenge is finding cheap deposits to fund all those new loans.