Community banking
Community banking
- California
Arco gas stations in California have become favorite targets of thieves who use skimmers to steal debit card information and empty consumers' checking accounts.
July 1 - Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania bank under orders from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to restrict its insider dealings is trying to dump its national charter in favor of a state charter.
July 1 - Oklahoma
As if losses in their real estate and construction loan portfolios were not worrisome enough, small banks are starting to see problems crop up in another less expected area: their investment portfolios.
June 30 - Kansas
The troubled Team Financial Inc. may be putting itself on the block.
June 30 - Michigan
Shares of Independent Bank Corp. fell sharply Thursday after the Ionia, Mich., company announced it was slashing its second-quarter dividend, because it needs capital to shore up its loan-loss reserves.
June 27 - Nebraska
TierOne Corp.'s stock jumped Thursday after the Lincoln, Neb., company said it sold $63.8 million of delinquent Florida residential construction loans.
June 27 - Michigan
It took four years for University Bancorp in Ann Arbor, Mich., to develop a home loan product that both complied with the strict laws of Islamic financing and satisfied its regulators, but it was time well spent.
June 27 - South Carolina
First Citizens Bancorp. of Columbia, S.C., is paying top dollar in a deal to add core deposits and beef up market share in its home state.
June 27 -
- Iowa
The former chief executive of Vineyard National Bancorp, who is trying to win control of its board, has added another banker to his alternative slate of directors.
June 25 - Florida
Jacksonville Bancorp Inc.'s deal to acquire a fellow Florida company, Heritage Bancshares Inc. in Orange Park, was called off Tuesday because both said it no longer made sense for their shareholders.
June 25 - Georgia
Battered by huge losses on loans to developers in Georgia and Florida, Omni National Bank in Atlanta has put its plan to open branches or loan offices throughout the United States on hold.
June 25 - Pennsylvania
If a Pennsylvania bank wins a case challenging the way banks there are taxed after a merger, dozens of banks that have made in-state acquisitions could be eligible for refunds.
June 24 - Illinois
Hometown Community Bancorp Inc. of Morton, Ill., has a deal to acquire the $178 million-asset Alpha Financial Group Inc. of Toluca.
June 24 - Arkansas
The recent plunge in Bank of the Ozarks Inc.'s stock might best be explained as guilt by association.
June 24 - Georgia
Expecting losses in its residential construction loan portfolio to continue to mount, WGNB Corp. of Carrollton, Ga., is looking to raise as much as $25 million.
June 24 - Pennsylvania
Gary Roberts plans to retire July 1 as the president and chief executive officer of First National Bank of Pennsylvania, a unit of F.N.B. Corp. in Hermitage.
June 23 - Pennsylvania
For community banks looking to gain scale and improve efficiency, their options are generally to acquire or be acquired.
June 23 -
Dick Kovacevich had a clear philosophy at Norwest and Wells Fargo: Money moves.
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