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Byline: Allison Prang Ohio bankers are keeping an open mind about a possible gubernatorial run by Richard Cordray. While Cordray hasn't announced any plans, his tenure as director of the [...]

Byline: Allison Prang HomeStreet in Seattle continues to downsize its mortgage operations. The $6.6 billion-asset company said in a press release Monday that it will fire 60 employees in the [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Merchants Bancorp in Carmel, Ind., is planning an initial public offering that could raise $115 million. The $3.1 billion-asset parent of Merchants Bank of Indiana did not [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Live Oak Bancshares is used to finding opportunities, but the Wilmington, N.C., company's latest expansion came about after it was contacted by two experienced lenders. The $2.2 [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Live Oak Bancshares in Wilmington, N.C., has hired a pair of former Banc of California bankers to create an M&A lending team. The $2.2. billion-asset Live Oak [...]

Byline: Allison Prang While bankers are winning over low- and middle-income groups, they still have to rebuild their image with affluent customers. For the first time since the financial crisis, [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Provident Financial Holdings in Riverside, Calif., will record a nearly $3 million charge in its fiscal first quarter tied to a legal settlement. The $1.2 billion-asset company [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Hurricanes wreak havoc, but they also present opportunities. Certain sectors are poised to benefit from rebuilding efforts following Harvey and Irma, which by some estimates caused a [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Banking experience used to look good on a politician's resume. A career in the banking industry showed that a candidate was comfortable with numbers and making difficult [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Union Bankshares in Richmond, Va., will soon have a new bank president. The $9 billion-asset Union said in a press release Tuesday that it had hired John [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Nashville might be getting its first new bank since 2008. A group of former Avenue Financial and Metropolitan Bank executives are looking to open Studio Bank. The [...]

Byline: Allison Prang If Phil Murphy gets his way, New Jersey would become the second state to own a bank. Murphy, a Democrat running to become the state's governor, doesn't [...]

Byline: Allison Prang The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is allowing banks to close branches along the Gulf Coast as a potential hurricane nears. The agency said in [...]

Byline: Allison Prang CIT Bank in Pasadena, Calif., has made the largest investment in a community development financial institution that has operated locally for 20 years. The $51 billion-asset CIT [...]

Byline: Allison Prang CenterState Banks in Winter Haven, Fla., may be outgrowing its home state. The $6.8 billion-asset CenterState is finding it increasingly challenging to find suitable bank deals in [...]

Byline: Allison Prang CenterState Banks in Winter Haven, Fla., has agreed to buy two banks in Florida. The $6.8 billion-asset CenterState said in a press release Monday that it will [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Everyone remembers the school bully, even in banking. Hostile takeovers are so infrequent that they draw attention when they occur. They are often a matter of perspective: [...]

Byline: Allison Prang BancorpSouth in Tupelo, Miss., is the latest bank to announce plans to scrap its holding company. The $15 billion-asset company disclosed in a Thursday filing with the [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Opus Bank in Irvine, Calif., reported higher quarterly earnings that showed the up- and downside of efforts to clean up its balance sheet. The $7.7 billion-asset company [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Regulators are keeping tabs on banks that have increased their reliance on wholesale funding. Wholesale funding, particularly brokered deposits, is a way that banks support loan growth. [...]

Byline: Allison Prang RBB Bancorp, an Asian-American bank in Los Angeles, is going public. The $1.4 billion-asset company is planning to raise about $50 million through an initial public offering. [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Sometimes it feels good to let go. Such is the case at Bank of the Ozarks in Little Rock, Ark., which recently did away with its holding [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Bank of the Ozarks in Little Rock, Ark., reported higher quarterly earnings that reflected a pair of bank acquisitions it completed in the second half of last [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Gary Olson was the only banker in the room. Olson, the CEO of ESSA Bank & Trust in Stroudsburg, Pa., was recently on a panel addressing 250 [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Profitably serving low-income customers is a longstanding challenge for banks, but it's especially tricky when the prospects are former prisoners. Wage garnishments for old debts, difficulty finding [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Byline Bancorp in Chicago could be laying the groundwork for bank acquisitions. The $2.6 billion-asset company recently filed a prospectus to raise nearly $80 million through an [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Byline Bancorp in Chicago is planning to raise up to $79 million by going public. The $2.6 billion-asset company has filed a prospectus to sell about 3.8 [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Community banks remain resistant to new technology despite increased threats from bigger institutions and nonbanks. Such hesitancy was on display earlier this year when the Florida Bankers [...]

Byline: Allison Prang San Francisco is learning through trial and error how to reach the unbanked. The city treasurer's office has spent more than a decade working with nonprofits to [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Another banking team has taken a side in the build-versus-buy debate. The organizers of the proposed Advantage Bank in Lemoyne, Pa., want to acquire a bank rather [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Investors Bancorp is taking a meaningful step to becoming a major commercial lender in the New York area. The $23.9 billion-asset company, which is already the largest [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Puget Sound Bank in Bellevue, Wash., has lined up its next leader. The $548 million-asset bank said in a press release Wednesday that Sean Brennan will replace [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Brent Beardall has big shoes to fill at Washington Federal in Seattle. Beardall succeeded Roy Whitehead in April, replacing a CEO who had been at the helm [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Bank of Austin is one step closer to becoming the first new bank in Texas in nearly eight years. The proposed bank's application has been approved by [...]

Byline: Allison Prang The post-election rally in banking stocks has given certain buyers the ability to make bank acquisitions that immediately (and uncharacteristically) add value. At least seven M&A deals [...]

Byline: Allison Prang A potential cut to the Department of Agriculture's discretionary spending would be ill-timed for farmers and their lenders. The Trump administration's budget proposal, while thin on details, [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Bankers aren't holding their breath for sweeping regulatory reform. While nearly 60% of bankers believe Washington will make changes in the next two years, nearly three-fourths of [...]

Byline: Allison Prang While it is no secret that banks are declining at a rapid rate, some states are losing institutions at a much faster pace than others. Some reasons [...]

Byline: Allison Prang At a time when incentives are once again front and center in the banking industry, Texas Capital Bankshares offers a lesson in aligning bankers' interests with those [...]

Byline: Allison Prang First Bank in Hamilton, N.J., has agreed to buy Bucks County Bank in Doylestown, Pa. The $1.1 billion-asset First Bank said in a press release Wednesday that [...]

Byline: Allison Prang A major shareholder of Investors Bancorp is getting a board seat at the Short Hills, N.J., company. The $23.2 billion-asset company disclosed in a regulatory filing Tuesday [...]

Byline: Allison Prang WL Ross & Co. has nominated a new director to replace Wilbur Ross at Sun Bancorp in Mount Laurel, N.J. The $2.3 billion-asset Sun said in a [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Banks of all sizes -- from Bank of America to the $1 billion-asset Howard Bank near Baltimore -- are investing in small-business loan funds to promote economic [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Independent Bank Corp. in Rockland, Mass., has a new bank president. The $7.7 billion-asset company said in a press release Thursday that Gerard Nadeau had also joined [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Fidelity Southern in Atlanta will soon have a new bank CEO. The $4.4 billion-asset company said in a press release Friday that H. Palmer Proctor, the company's [...]

Byline: Allison Prang Devon Bank is equipped to offer mortgage banking seminars in Romanian. Need literacy classes in Assyrian? You're in luck. Urdu? Check. Greek? No worries. Speaking multiple languages [...]

Byline: Allison Prang One bank's setbacks can be another's opportunity. In this case, make that two banks in Irvine, Calif. Problems of various stripes in recent months at Opus Bank [...]

Byline: Allison Prang M&T Bank in Buffalo, N.Y., announced that Mark Czarnecki, its president and chief operating officer, has died. Czarnecki, 61, died Sunday from 'an extended illness' the $123 [...]

Byline: Allison Prang The American Bankers Association wants the names of more members on election ballots. The group is forming a candidate school to groom more bankers to run for [...]

Byline: Allison Prang U.S. Century Bank in Miami may be looking for a new chairman. Alex Acosta, who has been the $1 billion-asset bank's chairman since 2013, was nominated by [...]