Podcast: M&A outlook with Paul Davis

The leaders of the House and Senate banking committees announced they had reached an agreement on a bipartisan housing bill that includes several provisions related to banking, from brokered deposits to de novo bank formation.

The OCC has amended the criteria it uses to designate financial institutions as minority depository institutions, including the removal of policy language that the agency said allowed it to continue MDI designation “when the bank no longer met...

BancFirst in Oklahoma City has agreed to buy Spirit BankCorp. in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Isabella Bank in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, has agreed to buy Grand River Commerce in Grandville, Michigan.

On the ABA Banking Journal Podcast, ABA's Heather Trew breaks down recent news about the president's executive order on illegal immigration and the financial system and the FinCEN advisory on red flags associated with the employment of illegal...

Harrison Barnes, whose San Antonio Spurs are competing in the NBA Finals this week, translates success from basketball to banking.

The top banking regulators appeared before the House Financial Services Committee, where they said that a decision on whether to press forward on Community Reinvestment Act reform may come soon and that merger application reviews probably should consider...