Community banking
Community banking
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An Internet filter that picked up a seemingly routine press release about a bank’s electing a new director dragged it into the abortion debate.
August 2 -
Midwest Banc Holdings Inc.'s second-quarter earnings fell 59% from the same quarter last year, to $3.2 million.
July 30 -
East West Bank of San Marino, Calif., reported an impressive 29% increase in deposits for the second quarter, but it still was not enough to keep pace with a 47% jump in loans.
July 30 -
- Pennsylvania
The images on Nova Savings Bank’s Web site include a retired couple driving carefree in a convertible, a father fishing with his young son, and a middle-aged couple talking about finances at a kitchen table.
July 29 - California
Westamerica Bancorp in San Rafael, Calif., continues to pump out record earnings - despite a shrinking loan portfolio.
July 28 -
Analysts are using words like “tough” and “lackluster” to describe community banks’ second-quarter earnings, but they expect that rising interest rates and an expanding economy will lead to an upturn sometime this year or in early 2005.
July 28 - Florida
After years of limited expansion BankUnited Financial Corp. of Coral Gables, Fla., has opened four branches in nine months and hopes to keep up the pace into next year.
July 27 -
Commercial Capital Bancorp Inc. of Irvine, Calif., said Monday that second-quarter earnings more than doubled because of continued record originations of apartment loans throughout the state.
July 27 -
Capitol Federal Financial of Topeka, Kan., has refinanced $2.4 billion of its fixed-rate borrowings to boost future earnings.
July 27 -
This has been a busy year for credit unions converting to mutual thrifts, but if the National Credit Union Administration gets its way, the pace of future conversions could slow considerably.
July 26 -
Old National Bancorp’s second-quarter earnings fell 58% from the same quarter last year, to $11.3 million.
July 23 -
Three senators are urging the Treasury Department to let small banks adopt the tax-friendly limited liability company structure.
July 23 -
Four months ago it looked as if First Niagara Financial Group Inc. in Lockport, N.Y., would spend the better part of 2004 in a consolidation mode.
July 23 -
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July 23 - South Dakota
Rabobank Group, which has gained a considerable share of the U.S. agricultural lending market in recent years by acquiring a small California bank and two Midwest agribusiness lenders, has apparently set its sights on one the largest lenders in the Farm Credit System.
July 22 -
So far this year farmers plagued by the now five-year drought throughout the West and the Great Plains have done a better job paying back their loans than they did last year.
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