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Carolina Premier Bank in Charlotte, N.C., is planning to swap its state charter for a national bank charter and change its name.
December 3 -
First Marblehead (FMD) in Boston plans to change its name to Collegiate Trust Corp. and initiate a reverse stock split to keep trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
November 12 -
Columbia Commercial Bancorp (CLBC) in Hillsboro, Ore., has completed a $6.6 million capital raise through a private placement offering.
August 29
Columbia Community Bank in Hillsboro, Ore., has become Premier Community Bank.
The $339 million-asset bank said in a press release Wednesday that it chose the new name to distinguish itself from other businesses that also use the word "Columbia."
"We chose the name Premier Community Bank because it is distinctive and speaks to the type of services we offer our clients," Rick Roby, the bank's president and chief executive, said in the release. "The word 'community' is still our middle name because it reflects our personal connection with the communities where we conduct business."
Premier Community is a unit of Columbia Commercial Bancorp (CLBC) and has four branches in Oregon. The company
