Community banking
Community banking
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The "luxury" experience at a Four Seasons hotel stay was not produced by facilities. It was produced by human interaction.
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Regulators are hitting banks with fewer enforcement actions, but don't assume that means the industry's getting healthier. The decline could merely reflect a shrinking pool of candidates for regulators to flag for errant behavior, some industry observers say.
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Increases in initial public offerings would normally benefit banks, but a recent surge in IPO activity is instead threatening to further shrink lenders' balance sheets.
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Sandler O'Neill investment banker Emmett J. Daly shares his outlook on bank mergers in an interview with American Banker.
July 5 - California
Linda Nahra, the president and chief executive at Community West Bancshares in Goleta, Calif., has notified the company that she is stepping down at the end of the month to pursue another business opportunity.
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As she departs as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. after a historic period of financial tumult and regulatory reform, Sheila Bair wishes more regulators felt empowered to be candid with the public about their views, even if they rock the boat.
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- Texas
El Paso offers a microcosm of the banking industry, showing how banks operating side by side can diverge dramatically based on daily choices.
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President Obama announced Friday he intends to nominate Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. director Tom Curry, a former state regulator, for the top job at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
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Raymond James Bank in St. Petersburg, Fla., is acquiring a $650 million loan portfolio from Allied Irish Bank's Canadian operation in Toronto.
July 1 - North Carolina
ECB Bancorp Inc. in Englehard, N.C., is planning to raise $75 million in a private stock offering and intends to use a portion of the funds to exit the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program.
July 1 - Ohio
Park National in Newark, Ohio, will take a higher-than-expected provision for loan losses in the second quarter due to continued credit problems at its Florida banking subsidiary.
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The Bank of Kentucky Corp. in Crestview Hills announced Friday a deal to acquire the operations of United Kentucky Bank of Pendleton County Inc.
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The Bank of Kentucky Corp. in Crestview Hills announced Friday a deal to acquire the operations of United Kentucky Bank of Pendleton County Inc.
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ECB Bancorp Inc. in Englehard, N.C., is planning to raise $75 million in a private stock offering and intends to use a portion of the funds to exit the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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Park National Corp. in Newark, Ohio, will take a higher-than-expected provision for loan losses in the second quarter due to continued credit problems at its Florida banking subsidiary.
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People who repeatedly overdraw their accounts are very profitable, but Rusty Cloutier, CEO of Midsouth Bank i Lafayette, La., isn't so sure what's good for his bank is necessarily good for these customers.
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