A pair of Massachusetts thrifts have bought insurance agencies.
Eastern Bank in Boston bought BBS Employee Benefits in Newton, Mass. The price was not disclosed.
BBS, founded in 2002, designs, implements and administers employee benefits programs.
Separately, Salem Five Bancorp in Salem agreed to buy Otis Brown Insurance Agency in Lexington, Mass. The price was not disclosed.
Otis Brown Insurance opened in 1953.
The Office of the Attorney General in New York says the bank violated the state's Exempt Income Protection Act, illegally transferring customers' money to debt collectors.
The Providence, Rhode Island, company is having discussions with private wealth management teams elsewhere as it seeks to expand its fledgling private bank. In just three months, private banking deposits doubled to $2.4 billion.
After the Minneapolis-based company reported stubbornly high commercial deposit costs, it reduced its full-year forecast for net interest income by $200 million-$500 million.
The CFPB has dissolved the Office of Supervision, Enforcement and Fair Lending and eliminated the job of associate director in a move that impacts how it designates nonbanks for supervision.
Rising deposit costs have plagued banks in general, and the Tennessee bank had to pay up to bolster liquidity after its failed merger with TD. But First Horizon retained customers in the first quarter while not paying them the special rates they got last year.
