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A local Illinois bank is acquiring another with assets of $115.8 million, pushing its total to nearly $1 billion.

Athlytic, a St. Louis-based startup, has developed a software platform to connect collegiate athletes and businesses as they search for name, image and likeness (NIL) deals. Here's how the platform it developed helps facilitate endorsement deals.

So-called “NIL collectives” are a new phenomenon, and type of business entity, that pool together money from a college’s boosters and supporters to fund name, image and likeness deals with student-athletes.

Demetrious Johnson, who played in the NFL from 1983 to 1987, said that key to the name, image and likeness (NIL) deals for the college player he represents is ensuring they don't interfere with the student-athlete's academic and athletic responsibilities at Mizzou.

City and transit leaders are looking to capitalize on new development in their bid for a north-south MetroLink route, as they now plan to run the line past the new Downtown West soccer stadium.

Less than a year after the NCAA lifted restrictions on paid endorsement deals, student-athletes like University of Missouri quarterback Brady Cook are already cashing in, and more than two dozen St. Louis businesses were eager to pay them. Here’s why that figure is likely to get a lot bigger.

Deloitte is considering splitting its auditing and consulting businesses, which would benefit its partners and cut down of conflicts of interest.

The firm is going from a mere 1,500-square-foot space in Prairie Village, to 5,000 square feet in Overland Park.

Dierbergs employees voted Wednesday night to approve a new three-year union agreement with the grocery store chain. Here are some details from the new deal.

What do you say to someone who wants to move to the St. Louis area or is contemplating whether to stay? That was the final question posed to panelists at the Business Journal's Advance STL: Workforce Talent event this week. Here's what our panelists had to say.

A judge has ruled that the city of St. Louis erred in denying an earnings tax refund to a St. Louis County man who said he worked remotely outside the city during the pandemic.

Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF) has signed an agreement to acquire a corporate finance and financial advisory firm serving European clients and entrepreneurs.

The national bakery-cafe, with more than 2,000 locations across the U.S. and Canada, is downsizing its headquarters space.

A survey found that 88% of respondents believe it's harder to attract and keep talent in St. Louis than it is in other cities. The Business Journal convened a panel of experts to hear how they're fighting to improve the region's talent pool. Here's what they had to say.

A Lake St. Louis-based provider of health care services and nonemergency medical transportation said Wednesday that its planned acquisition of a California-based NEMT provider will boost its annual revenue to about $1 billion.

A St. Louis native's startup, which was co-founded with an NBA player, has raised $26 million to advance a new social media platform. It's co-founder isn't the startup's only connection to St. Louis.

The deal, which includes purchasing a company with 650 employees, is part of an ongoing effort by the Maryland Heights company to expand its global footprint.

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones said Wednesday she thought more federal indictments would be coming, a day after one of the city's top leaders, Aldermanic President Lewis Reed, resigned after being charged with corruption by the feds.

The stench of corruption, both now and in the past, carries with it very real harms for our region.

A Metro East shopping center anchored by national retailers has sold for $40.75 million to a New York investor.