Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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With $250 million of capital headed its way, Seacoast Banking Corp. of Florida could make the big leap from survivor to acquirer.
April 12 -
EL PASO, Texas – FirstLight FCU has opened a new full-service branch and USO Center on east Fort Bliss.
April 12 -
By owning and controlling their credit card businesses, community and regional banks can diversify their local-market lending through balance sheet funding via low-cost, local deposits, while they strengthen their customers' overall banking relationship.
April 12 -
Shareholders were persuaded to double down on PVF because the new chief executive plans to transform the thrift company into a major player in the disrupted Cleveland market.
April 9 -
The FDIC sold the operations of the $585 million-asset Beach First National Bank in Myrtle Beach, S.C., to Bank of North Carolina in Thomasville.
April 9 -
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sold the operations of the $585 million-asset Beach First National Bank in Myrtle Beach, S.C., to Bank of North Carolina in Thomasville.
April 9 -
The Federal Trade Commission Friday announced it is mailing more than $4 million to consumers identified as victims of an illegal credit card billing scam operated by J.K. Publications, raising the total to more than $16 million since an initial mailing last June.
April 9 -
The $185 million-asset bank reported a profit of $448,000, or 24 cents a share, compared with $278,000 in the first quarter of 2009, it said Friday in its report for the quarter ended March 31.
April 9 -
Meridian Interstate Bancorp Inc. in East Boston, Mass., received permission to repurchase up to 5% of its outstanding shares.
April 9 -
The sale of Harleysville National Corp. of Pennsylvania to First Niagara Financial Group of Buffalo closed Friday, though before the closing Harleysville National sold a wealth management division.
April 9 -
SHREWSBURY, Mass. – The local school board here this week voted to allow Central One FCU to open a branch at the high school this fall.
April 8 -
MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin CU on Monday will open its third branch in the Milwaukee area in Wauwatosa, in an almost-new building it bought from ailing Amcore Bank.
April 8 -
APPLETON, Wis. – Prospera CU, a pioneer in credit union payday loans, yesterday said it is closing one full-service branch and two of its GoodMoney payday loan sites inside Goodwill stores as part of a restructuring.
April 8 -
Four Wachovia Corp. veterans plan to build a major regional bank in the Carolinas and Virginia, and are putting a twist on the strategy similar groups are using.
April 8 -
The National Credit Union Administration has entered the real estate market along Florida's Gulf Coast in a big way as it struggles to sell hundreds of properties it ended up holding from three large credit union failures: Norlarco Federal Credit Union, Huron River Area Federal Credit Union and New Horizons Community Federal Credit Union.
April 8 -
Pacific Mercantile Bancorp in Costa Mesa, Calif., reported a $6.8 million loss for the fourth quarter, cutting its loss nearly in half from a year earlier, with the improvement primarily driven by a lower provision for loan losses.
April 8 -
PremierWest Bancorp in Medford, Ore., has succeeded in recapitalizing its bank, though a fresh regulatory order has pushed back the target.
April 8 -
First Financial Holdings Inc. of Charleston, S.C., warned Thursday that it expects to report a steep loan-loss provision for its fiscal second quarter, which ended March 31.
April 8 -
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. – Kellogg Community FCU has unveiled its newest branch, in Pennfield High School.
April 7 -
BOISE, Idaho – Capital Educators FCU has broken ground on a new branch, its seventh, in nearby Eagle.
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