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    Goldman taps new global chairman of investment banking

    Raghav Maliah joined the firm in 2000 and currently holds two lead roles in the Asia Pacific region.

    By • July 2, 2025
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    Top US banks boost dividends

    JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley announced share repurchase programs. Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs, meanwhile, will see current stress capital buffers lowered.

    By • July 2, 2025
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    The Banking Dive Outlook on 2022

    Some narratives in 2022, such as office returns, will seem like a logical progression from the year before. Others, such as the regulatory sphere and shift toward smaller M&A, may mark a big shift from the previous 12 months.

    By Banking Dive staff
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    Webster Bank taps former Ally CRO

    Jason Schugel, whose 15 years at Ally included six as chief risk officer, has been appointed CRO at Webster, effective July 14.

    By • July 1, 2025
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    Largest banks sail through Fed’s stress test

    All 22 banks that participated in the Federal Reserve’s stress test passed, although it was less stringent than past years. 

    By • June 30, 2025
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    Ex-TD employee pleads guilty to receiving bribes, forging bank documents

    Between 2022 and 2023, Jhonnatan Steven Rodriguez opened approximately 140 bank accounts for customers who had contacted him via text in exchange for small bribes between $200 and $250.

    By • June 30, 2025
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    FDIC: ‘Suspected fraud’ contributed to Texas bank failure

    The Santa Anna National Bank in Texas was closed by the OCC Friday. The failure could cost the FDIC’s Deposit Insurance Fund an estimated $23.7 million.

    By • June 30, 2025
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    Atlantic Union sells roughly $2B in CRE loans to Blackstone

    The Virginia-based lender closed the sale of the loan portfolio it acquired from its merger with Sandy Spring Bancorp. 

    By • June 27, 2025
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    Banking conferences yet to come in 2025

    Gatherings can be idea generators, or crucial chances to network — especially amid an environment where political change can yield previously unexpected possibilities and partnerships.

    By • June 27, 2025
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    Fifth Third names new legal chief, commercial banking head

    The Cincinnati-based lender named Christian Gonzalez as CLO and Vikas Khanna, a 10-year veteran of the bank, as its head of commercial banking. 

    By • June 26, 2025
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    Glacier Bank to broach Texas in $476.2M Guaranty deal

    The acquisition would add 33 locations, including in Dallas and Houston, to the Montana-based lender’s footprint, as well as $3.2 billion in assets.

    By • June 25, 2025
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    Santander to sell 7 Pennsylvania branches to NY bank

    Community Bank will acquire the Allentown-area branches and expand its footprint in the Greater Lehigh Valley. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter. 

    By • June 25, 2025
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    Ohio’s First Financial to acquire Westfield Bancorp in $325M deal

    The transaction, set to close in the fourth quarter, would expand the Cincinnati’s bank’s presence in the opposite corner of the Buckeye State.

    By • June 24, 2025
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    OCC orders ‘troubled’ Carver Bank to switch up strategy

    The Black-owned bank must submit, by Sept. 30, a three-year plan including strategic goals, key financial indicators, risk tolerances and realistic strategies to improve its overall condition.

    By • June 20, 2025
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    PNC’s mobile branch manager braces for hurricane season

    “Our purpose is to make sure that we minimize any disruptions for the communities we serve, as quickly and as physically safely as we can do that,” Chris Hill said.

    By • June 18, 2025
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    JPMorgan names firm vet to lead international consumer bank

    Mark O’Donovan will replace Sanoke Viswanathan, who earlier this month said he would leave the bank to run financial software firm FactSet.

    By • June 16, 2025
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    U.S. Bank’s Kedia outlines strategy to rev up growth

    The Minneapolis-based lender, facing pressure to deliver stronger results, is working to deepen relationships with customers and transform its payments business, the CEO said Wednesday.

    By • June 12, 2025
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    Regions plans to make the most of M&A ‘disruption’

    “If somebody’s going to do a deal where we are, then we’re going to be all over customers and people and trying to grow our business,” Regions CFO David Turner said Tuesday.

    By • June 11, 2025
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    Truist looks to optimize digital onboarding

    With a sharper focus on customer experience, Truist is working to smooth out the onboarding process and increase personalization in its digital banking channels, an executive said.

    By • June 10, 2025
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    Needham to acquire BankProv for $212M

    The acquisition, expected to close in the fourth quarter, is set to expand Needham’s footprint into Massachusetts’ North Shore and New Hampshire, where it already has business customers.

    By • June 9, 2025
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    Fifth Third takes ‘intentionally unsexy’ approach to mobile app improvements

    “It is more important to customers that banking works, than that banking is delightful,” said Fifth Third’s chief strategy officer and head of consumer products.

    By • June 6, 2025
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    BMO hires BofA vet Levine

    Aron Levine will become group head and president of BMO U.S., effective July 7. Additionally, Ernie Johannson, one of the bank’s highest-ranking women executives, is retiring in early 2026.

    By • June 5, 2025
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    Citi drops firearms restriction in a bow to conservative pressure

    The bank updated a 7-year-old policy, enacted after the Parkland school shooting, over concerns about “fair access” months after Republicans accused some institutions of political de-banking.

    By • June 4, 2025
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    DOJ seeks early end of Lakeland’s redlining consent order

    The New Jersey bank settled redlining allegations in September 2022 and entered into a five-year consent order. The Justice Department wants to terminate it two years ahead of schedule.

    By • June 3, 2025
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    JPMorgan’s Lake to get expanded role as international exec leaves

    When Sanoke Viswanathan, JPMorgan Chase’s CEO of international consumer and wealth, exits the bank in September, Marianne Lake will take on his duties.

    By • June 3, 2025
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    BofA’s head of branches: ‘Proximity is still important to people’

    Customers may or may not visit a branch, but the bank’s presence affirms its commitment to a community, and “there’s a brand value” in that, the executive said.

    By • June 3, 2025