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It's the largest Houston-based bank by market cap.

CommunityAmerica Credit Union launched another new service, this time an independent insurance agency led by 30-year insurance and banking veteran Scott Strickland.

CommunityAmerica Insurance Agency is a full-line general insurance agency. It's independent and contracted with multiple carriers, enabling it to put together offerings that fit best for each customer.

“We are always evaluating how we can add even more value for our members, and property and casualty insurance is an area that makes…

Although the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica imbroglio dominates the news, history may judge the 2017 Equifax breach as having a more profound impact. Like a horror movie cliché, it keeps coming back for more victims. And like a spoiled child who learns to ignore toothless parental warnings, the company may fail to learn from its mistakes while harming those in its way.

A refresher: Despite advance warnings from cybersecurity experts in 2016, the company failed to shore up its defenses, allowing thieves…

Stifel Financial Corp. is buying Business Bancshares Inc. and its Business Bank of St. Louis in an effort to become a major player in local business lending.

This fin-tech firm has expanded greatly in the last year — and here's how its CEO plans to continue that.

Pinnacle Financial Partners is branching out.

On Wednesday, Nashville's $23 billion lender announced a minority equity stake in Artist Growth, a Nashville-based music startup. Artist Growth helps entertainment professionals, from musicians to promoters, manage tours within the company's platform.

A Pinnacle spokesman declined to disclose the value of the bank's stake in Artist Growth.

“The industry has changed, and [Artist Growth founder Matt Urmy] is way ahead of the curve with Artist Growth,”…

The Federal Reserve Board approved Wednesday Ameris Bancorp's (Nasdaq: ABCB) $145 million acquisition of Atlantic Coast Financial Corporation, allowing Atlantic Coast Bank to be absorbed into Ameris Bank.

The transaction, announced in November, added Atlantic Coast's $913.9 million in assets and 12 banking locations to Ameris, the 159th largest insured depository organization in the country. The transaction received FDIC approval in April.

In allowing the deal to close, the Federal Reserve Board…

Fifth Third Bancorp “has lost its sales culture” that was its calling card for years before the financial crisis, a well-known national analyst told me.

KeyBank N.A. spent $2.8 billion on community reinvestment initiatives in 2017, the first year of a five-year plan to invest $16.5 billion across the markets in which the company operates.

More than $140 million came to Buffalo and Western New York in the form of residential mortgage loans, community development investments, small business loans and nonprofit grants.

And there’s a chance that by the end of this year the banking arm of KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) will announce where exactly it plans to…

Many people believe desperation drives innovation — when resources are scarce, we figure out new ways to do things.

Couple that with New Mexico's repetitive rhetoric on scarcity, and we should have one of the most innovative states in the union. And perhaps we do.

Although we have many unique and wonderful things in the Land of Enchantment, I hear often about our inability to overcome the same challenges we have faced for years and even generations. Just the other day, I had three separate conversations…