Community banking
Community banking
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Stonegate Bank in Pompano Beach, Fla., could be getting close to announcing another acquisition.
July 29 - Delaware
An enforcement action related to anti-money-laundering compliance once again forced The Bancorp in Wilmington, Del., to report a quarterly loss.
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Green Bancorp in Houston has resolved $37 million in energy loans since deciding to get out of that business.
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Middleburg Financial in Virginia, which recently faced criticism from its biggest investor, has a new chairman.
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BB&T Corp., North Carolina's second-largest lender, is cutting jobs in its securities unit while scaling back institutional equity sales and trading activity.
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Iberiabank in Lafayette, La., neutralized the energy issues common to Gulf region lenders these days with a one-two punch of stronger fee income and robust, more profitable lending.
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Multiple acquisitions weighed down quarterly profit at TowneBank in Suffolk, Va.
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Banks need to improve their use of technology designed for small-business customers soon, or risk losing them.
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The week Hillary Clinton made history for women by winning her party's presidential nomination, and newspapers everywhere featured her husband Bill in their front-page photos. (Go figure.) Fed governor Lael Brainard is being touted as a possible Clinton cabinet member. Sallie Krawcheck and Jenny Knott talk Wall Street then and now, and so does Barbara Byrne, whose stories you may find mirrored in the upcoming movie "Equity." U.S. Bancorp has family therapists for the ultra-rich. Plus, Claire Calmejane, Mary Callahan Erdoes and Beth Mooney.
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The $1.8 billion-asset Sunflower expects to combine with the $2.2 billion-asset Strategic Growth to create a company with $3 billion in loans and 60 branches in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico and Texas.
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Banks can borrow some of the best practices from mobile-first fintech firms in order to compete with startups for millennials.
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Middlefield Banc Corp. in Ohio has agreed to buy Liberty Bank in Beachwood, Ohio.
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The former C1 Financial chief, expected to play a critical role at Bank of the Ozarks, resigned just a week after his company's sale. Thanks to a lengthy noncompete, it could take years to determine his next move.
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The cybersecurity climate is already an all-hands-on-deck situation, so one more threat even one prompted by one of America's loudest voices may not matter.
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First Citizens BancShares in Raleigh, N.C., reported higher quarterly profit that reflected a couple of one-time gains.
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Brent Beardall, who has been with Washington Federal since 2001, was named president of the $14.8 billion-asset company and its primary banking unit and retains his job as chief banking officer.
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United Community Banks in Blairsville, Ga., reported higher quarterly gains spurred by fee revenue.
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Suffolk Bancorp in New York, which recently agreed to be sold to People's United Financial, discouraged several suitors from bidding due to concerns about concentrations of commercial real estate loans at those banks. The disclosures highlight the challenges that banks with heavy CRE exposure could face as buyers or sellers if they want to do deals.
July 27 - New Jersey
Valley National Bancorp in Wayne, N.J., reported higher quarterly profit because of loan sales and increases in other fees.
July 27 - Oklahoma
BOK Financial in Tulsa, Okla., reported lower quarterly profit that reflected a still-elevated loan-loss provision.
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