Community banking
Community banking
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M&A activity has picked up in recent weeks as several regional banks have struck big deals. Is it a blip or a sign of what's to come?
June 25 -
Fair Financial, a digital banking platform developed by a Twin Cities nonprofit in partnership with a local bank, launched a pilot program this week. By 2020, it plans to serve 5,000 customers across the country.
June 22 -
William Wagner, chairman and CEO of Northwest Bancshares, will retire as the Pennsylvania company prepares to cross $10 billion of assets.
June 22 -
Judge says agency should not exist; the Fed says the largest banks are “strongly capitalized” and could withstand a severe crisis.
June 22 -
Denver-based P2Binvestor plans to use the new funds to expand its bank partnership program.
June 21 -
A team of economists surveyed by the American Bankers Association also believe that unemployment could reach new lows.
June 21 -
A new rule from the NCUA is designed to curry more favor with judges by establishing a detailed application process for expansion-minded credit unions. Banks complain it would be too permissive.
June 21 -
CB Financial Services said its current CEO, Barron McCune Jr., was retiring and would be replaced by its president.
June 21 -
The company agreed to aquire United Bancorp. for $51 million.
June 21 -
Old National will have the fifth-biggest deposit market share in the city when it completes the $434 million acquisition.
June 21 -
First Western in Colorado and Coastal Financial in Washington are the latest banks to disclose plans to go public.
June 20 -
Several leaders have retired after spending years preparing their banks for the regulatory milestone.
June 20 -
Fountain City Fintech, a program planned by NBKC Bank, would be one of the first fintech incubators formed by a community bank.
June 20 -
The company will pay $48 million for four branches and $230 million in loans.
June 20 -
The Dallas company expects to report a higher loan-loss provision after the loans, which include two shared national credits, deteriorated in the second quarter.
June 19 -
Ruoff Financial will make its first push into banking with the purchase of SBB Bancshares.
June 19 -
The National Credit Union Administration is set to vote on revisions to its field-of-membership rule, even as it's entangled in a legal dispute with the American Bankers Association over the rule.
June 19 -
The Connecticut company will have nearly $48 billion in assets after it buys First Connecticut Bancorp.
June 19 -
Cost-cutting will be important, but for its acquisition of CoBiz to be a winner, BOK Financial will have to prove it can boost fee income as it has with smaller acquisitions.
June 18 -
The deal for the Denver commercial lender joins a growing list of large acquisitions being announced in competitive urban markets.
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