Community banking
Community banking
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Unizan Financial Corp. of Akron reported a "material weakness" in its internal controls over financial reporting.
February 22 -
Community bankers still expect to add employees to their payrolls in 2005. However, the number of bankers who anticipate more hirings has declined from the number who said so last year.
February 18 -
A Tennessee Bank Emphasizes Culture
February 18 -
A Los Angeles bank targeting Chinese-Americans had a successful public offering this week, providing fresh evidence of investors’ bullishness on this community banking sector.
February 18 -
Farmers National Banc Corp.'s fourth-quarter earnings dropped 94% from a year earlier, to $134,000.
February 18 - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Commerce Bancorp Inc. daringly predicts it will continue to double its asset size every three to five years for the foreseeable future.
February 17 -
- Michigan
Community Central Bank Corp. of Mount Clemens, Mich., is buying River Place Financial Corp., a small, nondepository trust company.
February 17 - Georgia
Capital City Bank Group Inc. in Florida is eager to buy banks, but it's picky.
February 16 -
Seacoast Banking Corp. of Florida said its fourth-quarter earnings fell 44% from the same period in 2003, to $3.7 million. Full-year earnings rose 6.7%, to $14.9 million.
February 16 -
The Bank Holdings, a four-year-old community banking company in Reno, reported its first-ever annual profit Tuesday - $281,000.
February 16 -
In half a century of speaking, teaching, and consulting I have given a lot of advice and made many predictions. Sometimes I was on the money, but much of what I said still embarrasses me when I think of it.
February 16 - Utah
Utah bankers are supporting a proposal to eliminate state corporate income taxes - but on the condition that it would result in more jobs.
February 15 - Washington
Even at a bargain-basement price, Abigail Adams National Bancorp's stock deal for Consolidated Bank and Trust Co. in Richmond, Va., could be viewed as a gamble.
February 15 -
Mackinac Financial Corp. of Manistique, Mich., said Monday that state and federal regulators had terminated the provisions of the cease-and-desist order issued to its North Country Bank and Trust.
February 15 -
Community Bancshares Inc. of Orangeburg, S.C., said Friday that four large loans booked by one loan officer and classified as nonperforming during the fourth quarter helped spoil its results for the quarter and the year.
February 14 -
Home equity loans and lines of credit continue to grow in popularity, and banks have gradually gained an edge in consumer lending by pushing those products.
February 14 -
Two Indiana banking companies that had planned to merge have terminated the deal, because the Federal Reserve Board has to yet review their application.
February 14 - Oregon
Over the past several years West Coast Bancorp in Lake Oswego, Ore., has been bulking up in the state's fastest-growing cities by adding more branches and commercial lenders to attract more business customers.
February 14 -
Exchange National Bancshares Inc. of Jefferson City, Mo., said Friday that its 2004 earnings dropped by nearly 10% from a year earlier, to $8.3 million.
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