Columbia Bank, a subsidiary of Columbia Bancorp in Maryland, has
Mr. Nicholson is in charge of lending to residential builders and
He succeeded Charles C. Holman, an executive vice president, who retired
President Trump and Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott, R-S.C., visited the Federal Reserve Board headquarters Thursday afternoon to inspect ongoing renovations whose cost overruns have heightened scrutiny of Fed chair Jerome Powell.
The two Southeast banks agreed to combine in a transaction valued at $8.6 billion. Synovus CEO Kevin Blair would be chief executive of the combined bank, but a slim majority of board members would come from Pinnacle.
Flagstar Bank wants to merge its holding company into the bank, which would cut $15 million in annual expenses and eliminate regulatory oversight by the Federal Reserve, leaving the OCC as its primary regulator. The bank's CEO, Joseph Otting, is a former comptroller of the currency.
Fifteen banks have failed since 2019, with the most recent one occurring on Jan. 17.
Fedwire has migrated to ISO 20022, a messaging standard designed to make it easier for digital real-time processing rails to work together. It's a difficult lift for banks, but the agency promises it will be worth it.
Bread Financial continues to keep its eye on the potential inflationary impacts of the Trump administration's trade policies, despite the fact that its delinquencies and losses declined in the second quarter.
