3 ex-Signature execs start blockchain bank

N3XT, which opened Thursday, marks Signature founder Scott Shay’s fourth foray into launching a bank.

By Gabrielle Saulsbery • Dec. 4, 2025

Lubbock bank to buy Houston lender for $106M

Acquiring the holding company for Bank of Houston would give $4.4 billion-asset South Plains Financial an additional $772 million in assets and bolster its footprint in the Houston area.

By Caitlin Mullen • Dec. 3, 2025

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Artificial intelligence

The heavily regulated banking sector rarely gets to trailblaze. But with AI, an all-in mentality is fueling both research and adoption.

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HSBC names interim chair to role permanently

The move comes a day after CEO Georges Elhedery downplayed the likelihood that 76-year-old KPMG alum Brendan Nelson would serve long-term.

By Dan Ennis • Dec. 3, 2025

Canada’s Laurentian Bank splits off its commercial, retail ops

National Bank of Canada will acquire the Montreal lender’s retail presence and Laurentian’s Québec branches will close. Fairstone Bank will buy Laurentian’s commercial lending for $1.4 billion.

By Dan Ennis • Dec. 2, 2025

Associated Bank to buy Nebraska lender for $604M

The acquisition would give the Green Bay, Wisconsin-based bank entry into Omaha, along with the No. 2 deposit share in that market.

By Caitlin Mullen • Dec. 1, 2025

Goldman to buy Innovator Capital Management for $2B

The deal positions Goldman Sachs Asset Management as a top ten active ETF provider globally, according to data from Morningstar Direct.

By Gabrielle Saulsbery • Dec. 1, 2025

Morgan Stanley to pay $117.4M to resolve Dutch tax case

An Amsterdam subsidiary of the bank bought Dutch-listed shares for short periods, illegally offset dividend withholdings and intentionally filed false tax returns, a public prosecutor’s office said.

By Dan Ennis • Dec. 1, 2025

Fed approves Pinnacle, Synovus merger

The central bank’s sign-off, combined with shareholders’ approval this month, has the Southeastern banks projecting a Jan. 1 close for their merger of equals.

By Caitlin Mullen • Nov. 26, 2025

Green Dot inks deals splitting bank, fintech business

The company, which had been exploring “strategic alternatives” since March, will sell its fintech business to a private equity firm and its bank to a $840 million-asset lender.

By Caitlin Mullen • Nov. 26, 2025

VALT Bank applies for de novo charter

Former U.S. Bank executive Matt Gediman said the de novo’s model is “designed to support [SMBs] by making banking uncomplicated, accessible, and integrated with digital tools to run their businesses more efficiently.”

By Gabrielle Saulsbery • Nov. 24, 2025

U.S. Bank hires up for greater Southeast growth

The Minneapolis-based super-regional is adding bankers in some areas where it doesn’t have branches and eyeing further growth in SBA lending, an executive said.

By Caitlin Mullen • Nov. 24, 2025

Investor blasts Comerica over Fifth Third deal

Dismissing proposals from another bidder – reported to be Regions – “suggests a process engineered to favor Fifth Third rather than one designed to maximize shareholder value,” HoldCo Asset Management asserted Monday.

By Caitlin Mullen • Nov. 18, 2025

Putin approves Citi’s Russia sale

The sale to Renaissance Capital is one piece of a 14-piece puzzle. Citi announced plans to offload its Russian consumer arm and 12 others in 2021, and added Mexico to the list in 2022.

By Gabrielle Saulsbery • Nov. 13, 2025

M&T eschews the temptation of national presence

The Buffalo, New York-based lender remains focused on dominance in its current markets, said CEO René Jones, expressing some doubt that banks can perform at optimal levels as they expand.

By Caitlin Mullen • Nov. 7, 2025

Amerant Bank CEO steps down

On an earlier earnings call, now-former CEO Jerry Plush noted nonperforming assets rose to $140 million, from $98 million the previous quarter.

By Gabrielle Saulsbery • Nov. 7, 2025

BofA investor day spotlights co-presidents Athanasia, DeMare

In response to an analyst’s skepticism, co-president Jim DeMare said he and Dean Athanasia were put in their positions to help drive “rigor” around bank units meeting growth goals.

By Caitlin Mullen • Nov. 6, 2025

EagleBank CEO to retire next year

The Maryland bank, which has been looking to extricate itself from “asset quality challenges,” paid $22.9 million to settle a probe into allegations of insider lending by its previous chief executive.

By Dan Ennis • Nov. 4, 2025

Citi hones tailored experience for services clients

Delivering consumer-like capabilities for large companies requires “a mindset of design thinking first,” said Naveed Anwar, global head of platform and data services for Citi’s services unit.

By Caitlin Mullen • Nov. 4, 2025

7 hot takes: Goldman’s David Solomon talks AI, RTO and more

On AI, the CEO highlighted the nature of work rather than headcount, saying it “doesn't mean we will have less people. It means we have an opportunity to have more valuable people doing more valuable things.”

By Caitlin Mullen • Oct. 31, 2025

Ohio bank broaches Tennessee with $317.3M acquisition

Park National Corp.’s proposed purchase of Dyersburg, Tennessee-based First Citizens Bancshares would bridge the Ohio lender’s Midwest and Southeast territories and push the bank beyond $10 billion.

By Dan Ennis • Oct. 29, 2025

Citi, Coinbase ink stablecoin partnership

The bank’s head of payments and services called the collaboration “a natural extension of [Citi’s] ‘network of networks’ approach.”

By Gabrielle Saulsbery • Oct. 29, 2025

FirstSun to acquire First Foundation in $785M deal

The transaction, set to close in the second quarter, would roughly double FirstSun’s assets and add 18 Southern California branches to its footprint.

By Dan Ennis • Oct. 28, 2025

U.S. Bank’s Kedia: Banks should ‘lean into’ change

“It's times of disruption and discontinuity where winners and losers are created,” the CEO said at Money20/20. “If you're front-footed, you can come out on the other side with just distance between you and your competitors.”

By Caitlin Mullen • Oct. 28, 2025

Community banks have ‘no choice’ but to be in stablecoin business, lawmaker says

Bank-fintech partnerships are essential to enabling community banks to serve stablecoin interest, Rep. Mike Flood, R-NE, said Sunday at the Money20/20 conference.

By Caitlin Mullen • Oct. 28, 2025

Huntington to buy Cadence Bank for $7.4B

The deal, Huntington’s second in Texas this year, comes just weeks after fellow Ohio regional Fifth Third announced it would acquire Dallas-based Comerica.

By Caitlin Mullen • Oct. 27, 2025