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    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 • Oct. 28, 2025
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    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 • Oct. 27, 2025
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    Top 5 stories from Banking Dive

    Amid a swell of activity, financial institutions large and small are leaning into their aspirations. For PNC, it’s scale. For some fintechs, it’s a charter. For Millbury National Bank, it may simply be niceness.

    By Banking Dive staff
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    Third Coast’s $123M deal extends Texas M&A hot streak

    The Houston lender said it would acquire Keystone Bank to bolster its presence in Austin. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter.

    By • Oct. 24, 2025
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    Nicolet Bank makes $864M deal for Iowa, Twin Cities foothold

    The Green Bay, Wisconsin-based lender said it would buy MidWestOne to create a $15 billion-asset bank, roughly doubling its branch count, including 15 locations in the Minneapolis area.

    By • Oct. 24, 2025
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    Evolve Bank & Trust CEO faces child porn charges

    Now-terminated Bob Hartheimer became CEO in August with the intent of “restor[ing] trust” in Evolve, which since last spring has been caught up in a missing-funds saga tied to the Synapse collapse.

    By • Updated Oct. 24, 2025
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    Ohio banks to merge in $299M deal

    Canfield, Ohio-based Farmers National Bank’s acquisition of in-state peer Middlefield will add about $2 billion in assets and give Farmers a presence in the Columbus area.

    By • Oct. 23, 2025
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    5 hot topics BofA CEO Brian Moynihan is watching

    The Bank of America chief, speaking Tuesday at the American Bankers Association’s annual convention, talked stablecoins, cybersecurity and the importance of new regulations that “can’t be taken apart easily.”

    By • Oct. 22, 2025
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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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    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