Paul Davis
Founder, Bank SlatePaul Davis is the founder of Bank Slate, a financial strategy and research firm. He previously led community bank coverage at American Banker.
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Gulf Atlantic Bank would be the eighth bank in the market, and just the second with local ownership.
March 5 -
FNB Bancorp in Utah, which is being sold to Glacier Bancorp, decided that the Montana bank's decentralized model would save jobs and give its management team more autonomy.
March 1 -
Steans, a former LaSalle Bank chairman who also led the financial crisis recapitalization that saved Taylor Capital, died on Tuesday. He was 83.
February 28 -
Hometown, which agreed to buy Millbury Savings Bank, has already completed one acquisition this year and has another pending.
February 27 -
The Seattle company has a letter of intent to sell its home loan centers to Homebridge Financial Services.
February 27 -
The Indiana company will pay $68 million for Citizens First.
February 22 -
The company disclosed that it paid $146 million for servicing rights associated with $13 billion in mortgages.
February 21 -
The Illinois company will pay $46 million for a bank that is a fraction of its size.
February 20 -
Bridgeview Bancorp floated its name with 14 potential buyers, but it only attracted serious interest once it promised to divest a mortgage business that recorded a double-digit decline in fee income last year.
February 19 -
The company has agreed to buy Preferred Bancshares in a deal set to close by mid-2019.
February 18
