Community banking
Community banking
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As competition for customers intensified, bank marketing budgets ballooned 18% in two years, to an estimated aggregate of $10.6 billion last year, according to the American Bankers Association.
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The president and chief executive officer of Harleysville National Corp. resigned without explanation Tuesday.
September 27 -
Two banking companies — one big, one small — have teamed up on a unique financial literacy project.
September 26 - Georgia
To lower funding costs, one Georgia start-up is turning to a higher power.
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The company that revolutionized stock conversions of mutual savings banks almost 20 years ago is abandoning the hybrid corporate structure it innovated - but the structure itself is not going anywhere, and neither is the controversy surrounding it.
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Center Bancorp Inc. in Union, N.J., has denied an activist shareholder's request to join its board.
September 25 - California
For 15 years, Epic Bancorp in San Rafael, Calif., has fared well serving tony Marin County north of San Francisco.
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Sterling Bancorp in New York is shedding its consumer finance subsidiary so it can focus on business lines that make more money.
September 25 - Illinois
First Busey Corp. and Main Street Trust Inc. have been rivals for years, and their merger of equals would create a dominant banking company in the Champaign-Urbana, Ill., market.
September 22 - Texas
For years Security State Bank in Pearsall, Tex., ranked among the most profitable small banks in the country by sticking to a simple strategy: investing deposits primarily in securities while keeping its overhead low.
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Capital Corp. of the West's shares fell sharply Wednesday, a day after the Merced, Calif., company issued a profit warning for the third quarter.
September 21 -
The federal government’s new fiscal year is less than two weeks away, but the Agriculture Department has not decided whether to raise fees on a loan guarantee program popular with farmers and ranchers — and their lenders.
September 21 - Georgia
With its deal for Summit Bank Corp. of Atlanta, San Francisco's UCBH Holdings Inc. would gain a foothold in two more cities with fast-growing Asian-American communities - and perhaps accelerate its expansion plans in China.
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Flagstar Bancorp Inc. of Troy, Mich., said it plans to expand its commercial real estate lending operations to 16 new states in West, Midwest, and South.
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Industry Bancshares in Industry, Tex., is buying Community Bancorp Inc. of Bellville for $33 million in cash and stock.
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Oneida Financial Corp. of Oneida, N.Y., has agreed to acquire the $61 million-asset Vernon Bank Corp. of Vernon, N.Y., for about $11.4 million.
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