M&A
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PNC Financial Services Group plans to increase consumer lending with its current tilt toward commercial loans generating lower overall loan yields.
September 14 - Virginia
Old Dominion National Bank in McLean, Va., has raised $20 million through a private stock offering.
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For First Foundation, the government-backed program should help address a recent CRA exam's criticism that it has "poor penetration among businesses of different revenue sizes."
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Huntington Bancshares in Columbus, Ohio, is wasting no time capitalizing on its purchase of FirstMerit in Akron, Ohio.
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PNC Financial Services Group wants to sell its stake in BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, a deal that could fetch about $12 billion.
September 14 - California
Provident Financial Holdings in Riverside, Calif., has restated earnings from its most-recent quarter after it booked higher loan-origination costs.
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Community Savings in Caldwell, Ohio, has begun the process to convert from a mutual thrift to a stockholder-owned company.
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Wells Fargo has, at least temporarily, lost its title as the world's most valuable bank to JPMorgan Chase.
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M&A activity has slowed this year, and D. Bryan Jordan, chairman and chief executive of First Horizon National in Memphis, Tenn., doesn't see that changing anytime soon.
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Under pressure from regulators and investors, banks that tout their sales cultures may have no choice but to follow Wells' lead and stop rewarding branch employees for hitting sales targets.
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First Midwest Bancorp in Itasca, Ill., has entered a sale-leaseback agreement with Oak Street Real Estate Capital in Chicago.
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With prolonged low interest rates, Centric Bank is targeting niche groups while eyeing ways to poach customers from recent sellers in Pennsylvania.
September 13 -
Fifth Third Bancorp said Tuesday that it plans to close 44 branches, a cost-cutting move that follows its recent shutdown of more than 100 branches.
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Camden National in Camden, Maine, is uniting its trust and bank units to form a wealth management division.
September 13 - Texas
Comerica in Dallas has sent layoff notices to about 450 employees nearly half of them in managerial roles as part of a major cost-cutting initiative.
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Hilltop Holdings in Dallas has promoted Alan White to share the chief executive role with Jeremy Ford.
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New credit card accounts at JPMorgan Chase have grown by double digits thanks partly to its embrace of borrowers with lower FICO scores, but it sought to reassure investors that credit quality has suffered only slightly.
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Cambridge Bancorp in Massachusetts has recruited two finance executives to spearhead its new asset-based lending practice.
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The $222 billion-asset company has not yet publicly stated the number of branches or markets to be affected, but it "would be closing and consolidating some branches in early December," BB&T spokesman David White on Monday.
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Customers Bancorp in Wyomissing, Pa., is seeking to raise as much as $133.5 million through two avenues: a newly announced preferred stock offering and previously announced secondary sales of common stock.
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