Robert Barba is the technology editor of American Banker. Robert previously served as deputy editor of American Banker's dealmaking and strategy section. He joined American Banker in late 2007 as a community banking reporter, just in time for the financial crisis. Robert played a lead role in covering community banks' struggle for survival in the years following the downturn. Robert has appeared on Fox Business to discuss bank failures and the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program. Prior to joining American Banker, Robert was a general business reporter at Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers in Stuart, Fla. He began his career as a business desk intern at The Denver Post and Boulder Daily Camera. Robert is based in New York.
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Wells Fargo & Co. has appointed Michael Buttner as managing director of its bank strategies group, in hopes of expanding its consulting services to banks of all sizes.
August 10 -
Jason Awad has worn many hats over a long career in Sin City; now he is trying his banking cap once again.
August 9 -
NBH Holdings Corp. is following up its recent failed bank acquisition in Colorado with a branch deal and name change.
August 8 -
On Tuesday, the $904 million-asset company said that Lee R. Keith, a director since 2009, as its interim president and chief executive. Keith succeeds Ted T. Awerkamp, who had served in those positions since 2007.
August 8 -
Capitol Bancorp Ltd. has agreed to sell its interest in Bank of Las Colinas for a second time.
August 8 -
With its coffers at capacity, the capital-flush Cincinnati company said recently it would raise its dividend to equal 100% of its quarterly earnings.
August 5 -
Madison National Bancorp Inc. in Melville, N.Y., is giving an investment group an additional six months to complete its planned acquisition, but the seller is building in insurance.
August 5 -
Fulton Financial said the directors of its $2 billion-asset The Bank in Mt. Laurel and its $1.37 Skylands Community Bank in Chester have agreed to merge.
August 2 -
HF Financial Corp. in Sioux Falls, S.D., said Tuesday that it expects to revise its results for its fiscal year that ended June 30 downward by $500,000 to $1 million to reflect downgrades in its agriculture portfolio.
August 2 -
Hampton Roads Bankshares Inc. in Norfolk, Va., has sold its insurance business as part of its ongoing effort to reduce overhead and streamline operations.
August 2 -
Old National Bancorp's purchase of Integra Bank, its largest competition, is not your usual FDIC failed bank deal, and could be considered subtraction by addition.
August 1 -
John F. Novak, chief executive of Millennium Bankshares Corp. in Sterling, Va., is expected to step down at the end of this month.
August 1 -
Integra Bank in Evansville, Ind., was closed by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, after fighting to survive for nearly two years.
July 29 -
BankAtlantic Bancorp Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is heading west to try to drum up interest in its stock.
July 29 -
First Mariner Bancorp reported a loss of $11 million in the second quarter, plunging the ailing Baltimore company deeper into a capital hole.
July 29 -
The $9.5 billion-asset company in Flint, Mich., announced after the market closed on Thursday that it earned $18.5 million in the second quarter, compared to a net loss of $44.7 million a year earlier and a loss of $74.3 million in the first quarter.
July 29 -
A downgrade could deliver a massive economic hit, affecting the quality of banks' assets and the value of their swollen investment portfolios, economists and other observers say.
July 28 -
First PacTrust Bancorp Inc. in Chula Vista, Calif., said Wednesday that it raised an additional $542,500 from a common stock offering after its underwriters exercised a small portion of an overallotment option.
July 27 -
UMB Financial Corp. in Kansas City, Mo., reported earnings of $26.3 million, up 14.4%, as credit costs fell and noninterest income jumped.
July 27 -
Wintrust Financial Corp. in Lake Forest, Ill, said Wednesday that second-quarter earnings fell 10% from a year earlier, to $11.8 million.
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