Robin Wiessmann, who recently served as secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities, is the new executive director and CEO of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency.

Robo-advising and some aspects of artificial intelligence have started picking up in the areas of wealth management and financial advising and banking professionals and other money managers have taken notice.

Peoples Security Bank and Trust, founded in 1905, is headquartered in Scranton Pennsylvania. Its presence in Lehigh Valley includes three locations with over $500 million in assets.

Scranton-based Peoples Security Bank & Trust Co. broke into the Lehigh Valley market when it opened its first branch in Bethlehem in 2014 and now, it’s eyeing an expansion into the Doylestown market.

The Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities has launched an initiative to try to help women better save for retirement.

Perkasie-based Penn Community Bank has agreed to sell its insurance division, Penn Community Insurance, to Franconia Insurance & Financial Services, an agency in Telford.

Fidelity D&D Bancorp of Dunmore announced it would acquire MNB Corp and Merchants Bank, MNB’s wholly owned subsidiary bank in a deal valued at about $78.5 million.

Fulton Financial Corporation is a $21.7 billion holding company headquartered in Lancaster. It is the parent company of Fulton Bank, which has 225 offices in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Virginia. Phil Wenger, Chairman and CEO, began his career at Fulton Bank in 1979 as a management trainee, and his main focus throughout much of his career was on ...

The Neffs National Bank of North Whitehall Township plans to open a second branch, this one on the site of a shuddered National Penn Bank in Walnutport.

A former Santander Bank branch will give way to Jonestown Bank & Trust when the Lebanon County-based bank expands into the Berks market with a new branch in Robesonia early next year.