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Charles C. Roberts, Jr. is president of C. Roberts Consulting Engineers, Inc. (http://www.croberts.com). He has a bachelors degree, masters degree and a Ph.D. in engineering. He has worked as a consulting engineer in the area of accident reconstruction and failure analysis since 1976. He has published several books and articles on accident reconstruction, failure analysis and history.
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The North Carolina bank agreed to offload Sterling Capital Management to Guardian Capital Group in Toronto. It's the latest step in the effort to simplify Truist.
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The San Francisco company entered into a pact with its regulator when it acquired Radius Bank three years ago. "The operating agreement, by design, in some ways slows you down," said CEO Scott Sanborn.
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Valley National, based in Morristown, New Jersey, has a high exposure to commercial-property loans relative to its peers. The bank reported that almost half its $50.2 billion loan book was in commercial real estate as of Dec. 31, with heavy exposure to New York, Florida and New Jersey.
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Dogwood State Bank and Community First Bancorp plan an all-stock deal to create a $2.2 billion bank, technology firm Fiserv announces a partnership with the National Hockey League's New Jersey Devils, former Texas secretary of state will join Cullen/Frost's board and more in our weekly banking news roundup.
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Wilbur Swan is the CEO of Catchlight, a software startup incubated within Fidelity Labs, where he serves as a managing director.
Prior to Fidelity, he led commercialization of the Thomson Reuters enterprise data and AI platform and was a co-founder of ContactNet, which was acquired by Thomson Reuters. He is an accomplished speaker, innovator and thought leader at the intersection of technology, data and artificial intelligence.
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John Barbagallo , former president of commercial lines at Progressive, currently serves as strategic advisor atSambaSafety , a recognized innovator and leading provider of cloud-based risk management solutions for over 15,000 organizations with automotive mobility exposure.February 2 -
The $1 billion-asset institution shuttered its mobile banking platform for digital asset purchases on Wednesday, following a consent order from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency received in October of last year.
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PayPal hopes to demonstrate its coin's utility by using it to take a stake in a company called Mesh.
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Some of private credit's biggest lenders argue such trading would undermine this advantage by forcing them to constantly value the assets on a marked-to-market basis, rather than at their discretion, inviting volatility.
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