Speaking at an event in Boston, M&T Bank CEO René Jones predicted more M&A activity in the Northeast – including some driven by his own institution.

As CEO of PeoplesBank, Tom Senecal has led the mutual bank through some huge changes in the last 10 years, including its entry into the Connecticut market. He’s now set to retire at the end of the year.

PeoplesBank says it’s become the largest U.S. community bank to fully operate on a cloud-native core banking platform after successfully converting to the Nymbus Banking Platform.

After 30 years at PeoplesBank, chairman and CEO Tom Senecal announced that he will retire at the end of 2025.

Now that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has signaled that the central bank could soon cut its key interest rate, he faces a new challenge: how to do it without seeming to cave to the White House’s demands.

Citizens Bank has tapped a Barclays Bank veteran to be its lead financial executive.

Chase Bank says it is planning to open five more branches in Connecticut over the next two years, adding to its existing 62-branch total.

The financial industry faces a “significant impending fraud crisis” because of the technology’s ability to bypass security checks and move money, Sam Altman said.