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Byline: Paul Davis People's United Bancorp in Bridgeport, Conn., has acquired a national equipment finance platform. The $45 billion-asset company said in a press release Thursday that it had bought [...]

Byline: Laura Alix Zions Bancorporation in Salt Lake City said Monday that it earned $187 million in the second quarter, up 21% from the same period last year, as gains [...]

Byline: Neil Haggerty WASHINGTON -- State banking regulators are pushing Congress to pass legislation to allow state and federal regulators to coordinate on examinations of banks' third-party technology service providers [...]

Byline: David Heun Bank of America Merrill Lynch has launched a mobile application to support commercial prepaid card programs and their cardholders. The app is designed for cardholders who receive [...]

Byline: Roxanne Liu Regions Financial has tapped one of its regional presidents to head up its new office of community affairs. The Birmingham, Ala., company said in a press release [...]

Byline: Brad Finkelstein The Federal Housing Finance Agency is suspending its ongoing review of new credit scoring models and will instead move forward with creating a regulatory framework for providers [...]

Byline: Andy Peters Flush with capital and anxious about the impact of rising interest rates on monthly loan payments, more commercial real estate investors than ever are paying off their [...]

Byline: Paul Davis First Green Bancorp of Orlando, Fla., has built a reputation for championing social causes, including holding deposits for state-licensed medical marijuana companies. But when it came time [...]

Byline: Laura Alix Bank of Hawaii reported double-digit growth in its second-quarter profits as strong demand for consumer loans more than offset declines in fee income. The $17 billion-asset Honolulu [...]

Byline: George Yacik Receiving Wide Coverage ... Schmoozing: Goldman Sachs CEO-to-be David Solomon, an investment banker by training, is likely to spend a lot of time with the firm's big [...]

Byline: Scott Hein The U.S. economy is changing, forcing banks to examine how they operate. With strengthening GDP growth, falling unemployment and recent increases in the Federal Reserve's target range [...]

Byline: Hannah Lang WASHINGTON -- The industry lost a Supreme Court battle in 2015 protecting the use of 'disparate impact' in housing discrimination cases, but legal observers see potential for [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Profits rose at Citizens Financial Group as commercial loan growth accelerated and the Providence, R.I., company continued to reap the benefits of higher interest rates and lower [...]

Byline: Kate Berry TCF Financial has agreed to pay a $5 million fine to two regulators and provide $25 million in restitution to hundreds of thousands of customers for charging [...]

Byline: Frank Gargano Spirit of Texas Bancshares in Conroe has agreed to buy Comanche National in Texas for roughly $55.9 million. The deal, which involves cash and stock, would bolster [...]

Byline: Andy Peters Loan growth remains a case of one step forward, two steps back at many banks that have reported quarterly results in the past week, which means they [...]

Byline: Aditi Sangal Now on the agenda: David Solomon, who will become the chief executive of Goldman Sachs when Lloyd Blankfein retires Oct. 1, has taken up diversity as an [...]

Byline: Chental-Song Bembry State Street has agreed to buy Charles River Development, a provider of front-office software for investment managers, for $2.6 billion in cash -- but State Street investors [...]

Byline: Andrew Coen Sterling Bancorp in Montebello, N.Y., is branching deeper into its home state with a new municipal group focused on an array of nonpublic financing services during a [...]

Byline: John Reosti Fidelity Southern in Atlanta will significantly dial back its dealings in indirect auto finance. The $4.9 billion-asset company said it will limit future dealings to Georgia and [...]

Byline: Bryan Yurcan With paper receipts and invoices still a key part of any business, accounts receivable and accounts payable is one area that hasn't been lavished with digital innovation [...]

Byline: Laura Alix Regions Financial in Birmingham, Ala., got a boost from capital markets income and also saw its asset quality improve during the second quarter. Net income for the [...]

Byline: Hilary Burns Donning safety glasses, closed-toe shoes and rubber gloves, three bankers recently received a lesson in brewing beer. Exhibit 'A' Brewing in Framingham, Mass., hosted two marketing managers [...]

Byline: Rachel Witkowski WASHINGTON -- President Trump's signing of the regulatory relief law in May was a culmination of multiple efforts to enact changes to ease banks' burden. But it [...]

Byline: Andy Peters Consumer and commercial real estate lending grew markedly at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta, but ultimately it was margins that drove a double-digit increase in profits. Net income [...]

Byline: Debbie Goldstein Many Americans have felt the frustration of getting the runaround from a customer service agent or finding an unhelpful recording at the end of a financial company's [...]

Byline: John Heltman WASHINGTON -- President Trump's criticism of the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy was as unprecedented as it was unsurprising. While virtually every president of the modern era [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack Wells Fargo was certainly warned. The San Francisco bank said Thursday that it is working with its regulators on a review of add-on products it sold to [...]

Byline: Jackie Stewart For those hoping that regional bank M&A would pick up, quarterly earnings calls are probably proving to be a downer. Congress earlier this year passed legislation that [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Fifth Third Bancorp is dusting off an old plan. During a conference call Thursday to discuss second-quarter earnings, Fifth Third announced plans to open 100 to 125 [...]

Byline: Andy Peters Rising interest rates pushed Bank of New York Mellon's second-quarter profit higher, although elevated costs associated with technology investments offset some of the gains. The $353 billion-asset [...]

Byline: Kate Berry As much attention as Kathy Kraninger has drawn over her selection as the administration's choice to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, she has mostly been a [...]

Byline: Penny Crosman Walmart's experiment with offering Even.com's money management and pay-advance app to employees appears to be off to a good start. The retailer launched the app to employees [...]

Byline: George Yacik Receiving Wide Coverage ... Innovation station: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has launched what acting Director Mick Mulvaney calls a 'regulatory sandbox' to encourage financial technology firms [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Profits at Fifth Third Bancorp rose during the second quarter as the company benefited from higher interest rates, lower taxes and a one-time gain. However, fee income [...]

Byline: Alex J. Pollock The Department of Housing and Urban Development is currently reviewing its disparate impact regulation, and it's possible the courts, including the Supreme Court, could take the [...]

Byline: Paul Davis A tempered outlook for the rest of the year overshadowed solid quarterly results at BB&T in Winston-Salem, N.C. The $223 billion-asset company said in a presentation included [...]

Byline: Jackie Stewart KeyCorp in Cleveland reported higher quarterly profit after cutting costs and generating more fee income. The $137.8 billion-asset company said its second-quarter net income rose 17% from [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack Three months before the 2016 election, the chief executive of a small, privately held bank in Chicago was appointed to Donald Trump's 13-member economic advisory team. Stephen [...]

Byline: John Reosti OneUnited Bank in Boston is openly embracing the controversial combination of business and politics. The $661 million-asset OneUnited, the nation's biggest black-owned bank, is diving headfirst into [...]

Byline: Andy Peters A European acquisition and trading activity helped boost Northern Trust's second-quarter profit. The $135 billion-asset custody bank's net income increased 47% from a year earlier to $380 [...]

Byline: Hannah Lang WASHINGTON -- Reps. Ed Royce, R-Calif., and Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., introduced a bipartisan package of legislation Tuesday to reform and extend the National Flood Insurance Program. The [...]

Byline: Victoria Finkle You don't get a second chance at first impressions, especially in Washington. Kathy Kraninger, President Trump's pick to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is set to [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Everyone wants wants to launch a digital bank these days, it seems. Over the past year, U.S. Bancorp has talked up its plans to expand its retail [...]

Byline: Frank Gargano PeoplesBancorp in Holyoke, Mass., has agreed to buy First Suffield Financial in Connecticut for $60 million. The deal, valued at 202% of First Suffield's tangible book value, [...]

Byline: John Heltman WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve's top regulator laid out some initial thoughts on how the agency plans to apply enhanced prudential standards to banks with assets of [...]

Byline: Penny Crosman The fintech startup Abra's decision to let customers use credit cards to buy cryptocurrency -- a move at odds with recent actions by Bank of America, JPMorgan [...]

Byline: Hannah Lang WASHINGTON -- The Financial Stability Oversight Council is proposing to dedesignate Zions Bancorp. as a systemically important financial institution. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency [...]

Byline: Laura Alix Wider margins, higher trust income and a lower provision for loan losses helped to boost the bottom line for M&T Bank in Buffalo, N.Y., during the second [...]

Byline: Kate Berry Just as Mick Mulvaney fired members of a board that advises the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on consumer issues last month, the agency's acting director was also [...]