The Alabama bank is buying Clearsight Advisors to add to its booming capital markets division.

HUD official Alanna McCargo takes over the top job at the government corporation, which has had a series of acting leaders since 2017.

A clash among FDIC board members has intensified a debate about whether regulators should take a tougher look at large M&A deals. House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters added to the frenzy by calling for a moratorium on approving big acquisitions.

Founded in the wake of the global financial crisis, KBRA has issued more than 51,000 ratings representing almost $3 trillion in rated issuance since 2010.

While the indicative portfolio has an average credit quality of ‘B’ or ‘B-,’ Fitch also points out that the class A-1 notes have a 43.0% credit enhancement level.

The deal for Summit Financial furthers First Financial’s strategy of acquiring national niche business lines.

Chryssa Halley, who has been with the company since 2006, was named CFO and Jim Holmberg was named controller.

The tech entrepreneur has been increasingly focused on Bitcoin, a key growth area for the payments company he co-founded.

The bank, which acquired General Electric’s health care lending business in 2015, is looking to expand its presence amid a merger boom in the sector.

The Rhode Island bank has entered into an agreement to acquire JMP Group, which focuses on the health care, technology, financial services and real estate sectors.

The price for the 20% stake in Santander Consumer USA Holdings that Santander does not already own is significantly higher than what the buyer first offered in July.

Marked declines in loans that have had relatively higher levels of pandemic-related distress reinforced other indicators suggesting the market could normalize if infection rates remain contained.

Minnwest Bank, which focuses largely on agriculture lending, said it will “become more sophisticated" with its mortgage and consumer lending services by acquiring Roundbank.

The company attributed its second quarter loss to competitive pricing pressures and GSE-imposed charges.

Household liabilities climbed $14.96 trillion as of the end of June, a 2.1% rise from three months earlier, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said recently.

In late July, the Justice Department notified the Houston bank of a potential lawsuit alleging violations between 2013 and 2017, according to a securities filing. Cadence said that its prospective merger partner, BancorpSouth, supports the settlement discussions.

Combined with its pending acquisition of HSBC's East Coast branches, the deal would give the Rhode Island-based Citizens a top-10 deposit market share in metropolitan New York.

No large companies filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. last week, data compiled by Bloomberg show. That’s the second week-long drought this year, which is on pace to be the slowest since 2018 in terms of bankruptcy filings that include at least $50 million of liabilities.

The deal for the Salt Lake City-based home improvement lender, which Home Depot tried to acquire more than a decade ago, is part of a larger effort by Regions Financial to diversify its home lending business.

After a colossally “brutal” period in the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak last year, a recent report from Kroll Bond Rating Agency noted that business development corporations mostly rebounded by year-end 2020 to bring a sense of renewed optimism into the alternative-lending space.