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The $420 million-asset company said in a press release Thursday that Keith Costello, who formed Broward Bank of Commerce in Fort Lauderdale in 2009, will succeed Ken LaRoe as chief executive of First Green Bank.
May 19 -
Simmons First National in Pine Bluff, Ark., has agreed to buy Citizens National Bancorp in Athens, Tenn.
May 18 -
Gerard Champi is getting a vowel upgrade. He will be promoted to CEO from COO of First National Community Bancorp in Dunmore, Pa., this summer, according to a company news release.
May 18 -
Louise Walker, the head of First Northern Bank in Dixon, Calif., will be wearing an additional hat over the next year chair of the California Bankers Association.
May 18 - Pennsylvania
BB&T in Winston-Salem, N.C., plans to cut 240 jobs and close 28 branches as part of its integration of National Penn Bancshares.
May 17 -
Grant Bancshares in Natchitoches, La., has agreed to buy Tri-State Bank and Trust in Haughton, La.
May 17 - Minnesota
U.S. Bancorp in Minneapolis said it expects noninterest expense to increase in the second quarter due in part to compliance and marketing costs.
May 17 -
At a recent hearing in Harlem, community leaders and others expressed their desire for the United States Postal Service to offer financial services.
May 16
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JPMorgan Chase and Bloomberg Philanthropies are providing $7.5 million in grants for public education programs that address workforce needs in New Orleans.
May 16 -
PacWest Bancorp in Los Angeles is the latest bank to exit its loss-share agreements with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
May 16 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed fraud charges against two attorneys it says stole money from small-business owners seeking commercial loans.
May 13 -
Recent speculation that Comerica is on the block has sparked a conversation about how regulators would vet the sale of a SIFI.
May 12
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Guaranty Federal Bancshares in Springfield, Mo., has elected James Batten, a director of the company since 2006, as its next chairman.
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Truxton Trust's approach is just one strategy banks are using attract more wealthy clients. But whether they are exploring out-of-market opportunities, staying local or employing robo-advisers, banks all have the same goals: to generate more fee income at a time when margins from lending continue to shrink.
May 11
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HomeStreet in Seattle has agreed to buy most of the assets and deposits of Bank of Oswego, including the Lake Oswego, Ore., bank's branches.
May 11 -
A former cybersecurity expert with the National Security Agency joined the board of directors at Huntington Bancshares in Columbus, Ohio.
May 10 -
State officials in California have asked top online lending firms a series of probing questions regarding their compliance with laws and regulations dealing with referral fees, bank partnerships, fair lending and other sensitive issues.
May 9 -
Farmers National Banc in Canfield, Ohio, has agreed to buy Bowers Insurance Agency in Cortland, Ohio.
May 9 -
Pennsylvania state regulators on Friday closed the $103.3 million-asset First CornerStone Bank in King of Prussia, the third institution to fail this year.
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Maria Vullo, still stuck in limbo as acting superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, is hindered from putting her mark on the agency until she gets confirmed. So a quiet guessing game is going on about how her supervisory philosophy will compare with her predecessor Benjamin Lawsky.
May 6
