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    First Bank CEO: Small banks will need more deposits before lending can take off

    If smaller banks aren’t able to attract more deposits, they may have to get comfortable with slower loan growth, the CEO of New Jersey’s First Bank suggested.

    By Sept. 20, 2024
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    NY’s Five Star Bank pivots away from BaaS

    The bank cited regulators’ changing expectations. Banking-as-a-service accounts for 2% of Five Star’s deposits and less than 1% of its loans and two of its 12 clients have already begun offboarding, it said.

    By Sept. 20, 2024
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    Top 5 stories from Banking Dive

    Everything old is new again. One year after Citi’s reorganization, progress comes in “fits and starts.” Meanwhile, a contentious proposed rule is generating “voluminous” feedback after 14 months.

    By Banking Dive staff
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    JPMorgan creates role to oversee junior bankers’ ‘wellbeing’: memo

    Ryland McClendon’s appointment comes amid a spike in concern over the workload and expectations of associates and analysts after a 35-year-old Bank of America banker died in May.

    By Sept. 19, 2024
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    Silvergate exec cites ‘supervisory pressure’ in bankruptcy filing

    The crypto-heavy bank's parent company has no remaining lines of business and followed its subsidiary into Chapter 11 on Tuesday.

    By Sept. 19, 2024
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    TD CEO Bharat Masrani to retire in April

    Raymond Chun, TD’s head of Canadian personal banking, will become the lender’s next CEO, as the bank works to resolve issues within its U.S. anti-money laundering program.

    By Sept. 19, 2024
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    DOJ joins OCC, FDIC in updating bank merger guidelines

    Regulators’ revamped guidelines increase the agencies’ discretion, which is likely to stoke industry uncertainty and, perhaps, extend the timeline to approval, analysts say.

    By Sept. 18, 2024
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    Carver Bank taps JPMorgan, Citizens vet as new CEO

    Donald Felix, a 25-year banking veteran, will succeed Craig MacKay, who became interim CEO of the Black-owned bank last year when the company weathered a “hostile takeover” attempt from an investor.

    By Sept. 17, 2024
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    KeyBank CFO eyes opportunities through Scotia deal

    The two banks are exploring potential partnership opportunities – and their geographic footprints might allow a jumping-off point, KeyBank CFO Clark Khayat said last week at a conference.

    By Sept. 16, 2024
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    Citi tech chief to share data responsibility with COO: memo

    Anand Selva will co-lead the data program with Tim Ryan. Japan Mehta, the outgoing data chief, will transition Ashutosh Nawani into the new role of head of enterprise data office and data transformation, the memo said.

    By Sept. 16, 2024
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    EverBank to buy Michigan’s Sterling Bank for $261M

    The deal includes 25 branches, $900 million in loans and $2 billion in deposits; but not Sterling’s sole Michigan branch or its $372.9 million portfolio of residential tenant-in-common mortgage loans.

    By Sept. 16, 2024
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    U.S. Bank reaches its proving ground

    The super-regional is at an “inflection point” after recent acquisitions and tech updates, CEO Andy Cecere said at the bank’s investor day. One analyst, however, is calling for “a new set of eyes at the top.”

    By Sept. 13, 2024
  • RBC names interim CFO Gibson as permanent

    The move presumably puts more distance between the bank and Gibson’s predecessor, Nadine Ahn, who has sued the bank for wrongful dismissal and damages.

    By Sept. 12, 2024
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    BofA, JPMorgan, others urged to stop financing livestock production

    An open letter singles out the nation's largest banks for their support of food giants like JBS, saying lending activities undermine the sector’s environmental commitments.

    By Sarah Zimmerman • Sept. 12, 2024
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    9 crucial reactions to the capital requirements preview

    BofA and JPMorgan execs talk death, despair and a lack of specifics, while lawmakers and regulators appear to fall along party lines in the snowballing fight over the Basel endgame.

    By Sept. 11, 2024
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    Citi’s chief accounting officer exits

    Johnbull Okpara is leaving the bank after nearly four years to pursue another opportunity, according to an SEC filing Tuesday. Robert Walsh was named interim CAO.

    By Sept. 11, 2024
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    PNC’s Demchak wants to lean in to open banking for growth

    The Pittsburgh-based lender’s CEO is wary of larger rivals building branches in every city but said he won’t pay “silly” M&A prices for a “busted” franchise. 

    By Sept. 10, 2024
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    NBT to merge with in-state lender in $236M deal

    The deal, set to close in the second quarter of 2025, will extend NBT’s footprint into western New York by adding 18 Evans Bank branches.

    By Sept. 10, 2024
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    Huntington wants to open 55 branches in Carolinas over 5 years

    The Columbus, Ohio-based bank aims to add 350 employees and expand on a commercial-banking effort it launched in the two states last year.

    By Sept. 9, 2024
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    ConnectOne to expand in NY with $284M deal

    The New Jersey-based bank aims to create a premier middle-market bank focused on the greater New York metro area following its merger with The First of Long Island Corp.

    By Sept. 6, 2024
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    Many regionals lack clear strategy for private credit threat: analyst

    Private credit firms are no longer just extending loans banks won’t, Deloitte’s Richard Rosenthal said.

    By Sept. 6, 2024
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    REV Credit Union to buy West Virginia bank

    The South Carolina-based credit union’s proposed acquisition of First Neighborhood Bank is the 15th announced whole-bank purchase by a credit union this year — one off 2022’s record of 16.

    By Sept. 5, 2024
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    VersaBank completes purchase of tiny Minnesota bank

    The purchase gives the Canadian lender a bank charter and access to federal deposit insurance as it strives to grow its primary point-of-sale lending product.

    By Sept. 4, 2024
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    Goldman to cut hundreds of jobs: reports

    The staff reduction, tied to annual performance reviews, could affect between 1,300 and 1,800 employees, or 3% to 4% of the bank’s workforce, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. 

    By Sept. 3, 2024
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    Truist approves $4.5M bonuses for CFO, top consumer banker

    The stock awards were given “to support the retention of key leadership critical to taking full advantage of the business opportunities” created by the sale of Truist’s insurance arm, the bank said.

    By Sept. 3, 2024
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    New market data highlights cannabis growth potential and banking opportunities

    Cannabis market growth is creating financial opportunities for industry participants, including the banking sector.

    By Tony Repanich, President and CEO of Shield Compliance • Sept. 3, 2024