Jackie Stewart is the executive editor of American Banker Magazine. Previously, she covered breaking news, community banks and mergers and acquisitions for American Banker before being named as the managing editor of the Credit Union Journal. After graduating from Northwestern University in 2006, Jackie taught for two years in the Bronx, N.Y., through Teach for America.
New Orleans savings bank to deploy core processing, teller and IVR software from the vendor.
The aggressive Massachusetts bank shows there are multiple ways to grow, including acquisitions of banks and talent.
A Maryland bank is planning a $5 million initial public offering, while a Massachusetts mutual holding company is looking to take the second step in its conversion to become fully public.
Bank of the West plans to almost double the size of its small-business banking team during the next year.
The Federal Reserve Board has approved the sale of Home State Bancshares Inc. in McPherson, Kan., to Goering Management Co.
Fentura Financial Inc. in Fenton, Mich., has named new leadership for its board following the resignation of its chairman.
The companies said in a press release Monday that "irreconcilable differences of opinion regarding a number of matters" had developed and, as such, the boards had decided to terminate their agreement.
First National Community Bancorp Inc. in Dunmore, Pa., has turned to Steven R. Tokach, a community banking veteran and a former examiner with the OCC, to help it resolve its ongoing accounting woes.
Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati has named Julie Fallon Hughes as its western Pennsylvania market president.
Toronto-Dominion's U.S. bank is slowly carving out a wider wedge of the tumultuous market for retailers' credit cards.
Nara Bancorp and Center Financial Corp. will operate under the name BBCN Bank with a new corporate logo after the merger of the two companies is completed.
Bank of the West can outmaneuver larger competitors in serving more affluent clients, the bank's John Bahnken says.
Dearborn Bancorp Inc. in Michigan said Wednesday that the Nasdaq stock market had rejected its plan to cure a reporting deficiency and that its stock would be delisted on Tuesday.
Bank of the Carolinas Corp. in Mocksville, N.C., said that its chief financial officer, Eric E. Rhodes, has resigned from the company.
Waccamaw Bankshares Inc.'s stock was delisted from the Nasdaq after the company said it could not complete its delinquent financial statements.
BNC Bancorp in Thomasville, N.C., announced Wednesday that it would close four of the 10 branches it inherited last month when it acquired the failed Blue Ridge Savings Bank of Asheville, N.C.
Comerica Inc. in Dallas and Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati named treasurers Tuesday.
Bank of America Corp. said Tuesday it has hired 280 new wealth-management advisers in Texas and Florida, doubling its overall number of advisers to more than 1,000 nationwide.
Minneapolis bank is adding person-to-person payments and support for quick response codes to its mobile apps.
First Midwest Bancorp Inc. in Itasca, Ill., has completed the sale of $115 million in senior notes and will use the proceeds to exit the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
