Jim Dobbs

As part of a broader effort to clear the decks for 2025 and sharpen its focus on its core South Florida footprint, Amerant Bancorp in Coral Gables sold a package of mortgages at a $12.6 million loss.

Heightened expectations for increased economic activity could boost loan demand after a soft 2024.

Business owners are upbeat about their prospects for the coming year, a pair of bank surveys found, presenting the potential for stronger loan demand.

A pair of depositor-owned banks in Chicago that had planned to merge early this year abruptly called off the deal.

Serial acquirer Glacier Bancorp in Kalispell, Montana, is back at the M&A forefront.

Bank merger-and-acquisition momentum accelerated in the second half of 2024, and deal advisers expect activity to pick up even further this year.

Bank stocks rallied in the wake of bullish earnings results from bellwether lenders and a favorable core inflation reading that could keep the door open for interest rate reductions this year.

in Birmingham, Alabama, said that commercial lending should rise in the year ahead, while consumers and property owners may not borrow as much.

The Indiana-based company grew fourth-quarter loans and profits in part because of an acquisition in Nashville, and it expects to bulk up further with a deal in Minnesota's Twin Cities that was among the largest announced in 2024.

Frontwave Credit Union in suburban San Diego struck a deal to acquire neighboring Community Valley Bank as part of a strategic effort to expand its footprint and business lines.