Small banks once fretted about a lack of attention from potential investors. Size has often been a factor behind investment decisions. On the equity side, smaller institutions are often privately held ...

Live Oak Bank has outpaced Wall Street goliaths in small business lending. Here's how the Wilmington-based lender is using AI ...

"So basically bringing the big bank advantages in analytics to financial institutions of all sizes." His consultants set up a foundation for how a bank can draw and use data in a performance dashboard ...

Partnering with multiple small banks is just one option for fintechs. Some have teamed up with one big bank instead — like Apple Inc., which developed a credit card with Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that depositors at small banks could be eligible for the same kind of protection extended to customers at two regional banks that failed this month.

It’s the latest battleground among the nation’s lenders in a sector that’s less exposed to the extreme pressure buffeting the ...

In 1983 there were 14,469 independent banks to serve these firms. Today there are only 4,136. The number of branches available has declined as well, from a peak of 85,834 in 2009 to 71,190 in 2022 ...

The banks Moody’s and S&P have downgraded, by contrast, are largely just ordinary midsize-to-small banks doing business in an ordinary way, rather than institutions that have made obviously ...