Community banking
Shanika Sheppard needed funding to turn her Italian ice food cart into a larger business selling Philly cheesesteaks and other comfort foods. She's one of more than 520 small-business owners who’ve received loans of $150,000 or less under the bank's Lift Local program.
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Seiffert, who succeeded longtime CEO William Wagner, orchestrated the company’s entry into Indiana and the sale of its insurance unit. Northwest reported a record $161.9 million profit in 2021.
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Perennial No. 1 Oregon Bancorp, which operates as Willamette Valley Bank, boasts strong sources of fee and interest income, sound underwriting and vibrant geographic markets. It’s a formula shared by many on American Banker's list of the 200 highest-performing publicly traded small banks.
May 17
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The new hires joined Veritex from Bank of Houston, which has also been aggressively recruiting bankers.
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The past two weeks have seen a flurry of deals wherein Truist, Capital One and others pitch their brand alongside professional teams and their stadiums.
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Institutions are hiring aggressively or buying up competitors to take part in an equipment finance boom as the economy continues to heal.
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The Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, institution uses a fleet of traveling branches to reach far-flung customers who largely eschew modern technology.
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Burke & Herbert, which is based in Alexandria and has been in operation since 1852, has joined a long list of banks planting their flags in Richmond, where the overall deposit market has grown 32% in just five years.
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CEO Nitin Mhatre, who joined the Massachusetts bank in 2021, said that any M&A deal is at least a year away. For now, the bank is working with fintechs as a way to bolster its balance sheet and deliver exceptional customer experiences.
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The Federal Reserve and the FDIC are weighing changes to their policies for reviewing mergers and acquisitions, and that’s creating a sense of urgency among bankers to cinch deals now.
February 25
