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    U.S. Bank adds small business banking role

    Heather Kesner, who’s been at the Minneapolis-based lender for six years, oversees a team of 650 small banking specialists and a national sales team that works with clients remotely.

    By • Oct. 22, 2025
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    Illinois’ HBT makes a $170.2M deal to stretch footprint to St. Louis

    Purchasing Carlinville, Illinois-based CNB Bank Shares would add $1.8 billion in assets, $1.5 billion in deposits and $1.3 billion in loans to HBT’s balance sheet, along with 18 locations.

    By • Oct. 21, 2025
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    Artificial intelligence

    Banks’ focus on AI has shifted from a “cool-toys” mentality to one that sees the technology as a foundational pillar underlying finance and society itself.

    By Banking Dive staff
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    Texas deal would create $3.1B bank

    The deal puts Cornerstone within Texas’ top 20 by deposit market share among the state’s sub-$10 billion-asset banks and is one of several deals focused on the Lone Star State this year.

    By • Oct. 20, 2025
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    OCC’s Gould details regulatory ‘reset’

    At the ABA’s annual convention Monday, the comptroller, more than once, referred to the OCC’s actions during his tenure as “down payments,” and promised more community bank “relief” to come.

    By • Oct. 20, 2025
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    CFPB ends Citi consent order 3 years early

    The bank allegedly discriminated against Armenian-Americans in California, according to the 2023 consent order.

    By • Oct. 17, 2025
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    First Citizens to acquire 138 BMO branches

    Buying the branches, which span 11 states, furthers First Citizens’ effort to expand nationally, bank executives said. One analyst, though, said it gives the North Carolina-based lender “a weird map.”

    By • Oct. 16, 2025
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    Stripe’s Bridge applies for national trust charter

    Bridge joins a growing list of crypto-native firms, including Coinbase, Circle, Ripple and Paxos, which have applied for an OCC charter this year.

    By • Oct. 15, 2025
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    First Horizon keeps options open amid M&A uptick

    The Memphis, Tennessee-based bank’s CEO is “increasingly confident in our ability to integrate a well-structured merger,” but also indicated the lender is focused on “optionality,” he said Wednesday.

    By • Oct. 15, 2025
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    Robinhood CEO to community bankers: Don’t be too worried about AI

    The chief executive of the day-trading fintech told a group of community bank CEOs last week that small, local lenders have a leg up when it comes to customer relationships.

    By • Oct. 15, 2025
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    Citi rejects Grupo Mexico’s $9.3B offer for Banamex

    The bank continued to show support for an earlier bid from billionaire Fernando Chico Pardo to take a 25% stake in the Mexican lender, in combination with an initial public offering.

    By • Oct. 10, 2025
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    Banks more often retain defrauded customers if they can attribute blame: study

    Whether or not a bank’s fraud investigation results in finding the perpetrator “actually does matter quite a bit in terms of customers continuing with banks,” said Vamsi Kanuri, marketing professor at the University of Notre Dame.

    By • Oct. 10, 2025
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    Bessent urges community bank CEOs to ‘go on the offense’

    Community lenders that make it through the next decade will have embraced technology and attracted younger customers, the Treasury secretary said at a Fed conference Thursday.

    By • Oct. 9, 2025
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    Baltimore sues MoneyLion over alleged predatory lending tactics

    City officials filed a lawsuit against the fintech, alleging it operates as a “modern-day payday lender,” charging customers exorbitant interest despite marketing its loans as “zero interest.”

    By • Oct. 8, 2025
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    Fifth Third-Comerica bolsters Texas deal activity

    Analysts look to pinpoint the next bank takeover target – citing First Horizon, Webster and Cadence – as the banking sector comes off its hottest M&A quarter in four years.

    By • Oct. 8, 2025
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    Citizens rolls out student hub to boost customer engagement, loyalty

    The bank launched a resources section on its website geared toward offering holistic, personalized advice and resources for its student customers.

    By Kristen Doerer • Oct. 8, 2025
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    Citi has a competing bid for Banamex

    Grupo Mexico, a onetime front-runner for Citi’s Mexico retail presence, disclosed a bid to one-up billionaire Fernando Chico Pardo’s play for a 25% stake, and would purchase the rest, too. Citi, however, said it hadn’t received it.

    By • Oct. 6, 2025
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    Fifth Third to acquire Comerica for $10.9B

    The deal, expected to close by March, will create a $288 billion-asset bank among the nation’s 10 largest.

    By • Oct. 6, 2025
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    Synchrony buys financing software provider

    Versatile Credit’s consumer financing platform can lead to more sales for merchants and increase access to credit for consumers, the issuer said.

    By • Oct. 3, 2025
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    Prosperity scoops up another Texas bank for $269M

    The Houston-based lender, which “treats M&A as a line of business,” is likely to consider more acquisition opportunities while closing and integrating its two most recently announced deals, an analyst said.

    By • Oct. 2, 2025
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    Wells Fargo tweaks SMB to fuel growth

    April Schneider, who joined Wells from BofA last year, said her segment is one of the “top priority rails” on the bank’s growth map.

    By • Oct. 2, 2025
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    Top bank conferences to attend in 2026

    Gatherings can be idea generators, or crucial chances to network — especially amid an environment where political change can yield previously unexpected possibilities and partnerships.

    By • Updated Jan. 26, 2026
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    TD wants to get ‘back to winning’

    The Canadian lender’s executives detailed plans to slash costs by $1.8 billion a year and deepen customer relationships to make the bank more efficient while revving up revenue growth.

    By • Sept. 30, 2025
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    Washington banks to combine in $176.6M deal

    Heritage Financial will buy Kitsap Bank – adding 17 locations to bolster its presence on two peninsulas west of Seattle. It’ll be Heritage’s first acquisition since 2018.

    By • Sept. 29, 2025
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    Mid Penn to buy NJ bank, Florida investment firm

    The serial acquirer seeks to buy its seventh bank in about 11 years, New Jersey-based 1st Colonial, for $101 million. The following day, Mid Penn said it’s acquiring an investment management firm, too.

    By • Sept. 29, 2025
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    Indiana’s First Merchants to buy in-state peer for $241.3M

    The deal would give the Muncie, Indiana-based bank $21 billion in assets and entry to the neighboring Louisville, Kentucky, market.

    By • Sept. 26, 2025