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Iberiabank Set to Acquire Florida Bank Group

Total cash consideration is around $39.4 million

Signature Bank Named Best Business Bank

Bank Also Ranked Second in Best Private Bank and Best Attorney Escrow Services Provider Categories

Citigroup Agrees to Sell 41 Texas Branches to BB&T

BB&T will pay a 5.3 percent premium to book value on about $2.3 billion in deposits, according to a separate statement from the Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based lender.

Hanmi Financial Completes Acquisition of Central Bancorp

Hanmi becomes the second largest Korean American Bank in the United States

M&T-Hudson City Merger Still Stalled After Two Years

Two years ago Wednesday, M&T Bank Corp. announced the largest acquisition in its 158-year history, a $3.7 billion deal to buy Hudson City Bancorp.

MB Financial Merges Cole Taylor Bank Into MB Financial Bank

MB Financial Inc. is the Chicago-based holding company for MB Financial Bank, N.A.

AmEx profits rise as Americans won’t leave home without it

Card member spending rose nine per cent globally, after adjusting for foreign currency, compared to seven per cent growth in the preceding quarter and eight per cent growth in the second quarter last year.

CIT to buy OneWest Bank for more reliable funding source

U.S. small-business lender CIT Group Inc said it would buy California bank OneWest Bank NA for $3.4 billion in cash and stock, a deal that will give CIT a more reliable source of funding.

Washington Trust Reports Second Quarter 2014 Earnings

Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc. parent company of The Washington Trust Company, today announced net income of $9.8 million, or 58 cents per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2014, up from first quarter of 2014 net income of $9.3 million, or 55 cen

RBC Wins Prestigious Retail Banker International Award

The annual RBI Awards are a well-established global competition and highly regarded within the industry as a mark of exceptional performance.

Citic may give up US bank branches

The main restructuring involves injecting $37bn of assets from China into Citic’s Hong Kong listed unit, Citic Pacific.

Banks moving away from bricks and mortar

Florida banks shut the doors on 168 branches last year, the most in any state.

RBS's US business files for $100m IPO

Citizens is expected to increase that amount substantially once bankers start testing investor demand.

First American Bank and Bank of Coral Gables Announce Merger

First American Bank, headquartered in Elk Grove Village, IL with 49 branches throughout the Chicago metropolitan area and assets of $3.4 billion, has announced a merger with the Bank of Coral Gables, a community-based bank located in Coral Gables, FL.

SunTrust Reports First Quarter 2014 Results

Continued Loan Growth, Disciplined Expense Management, and Asset Quality Improvements Help Drive Solid Results

Over half of retail banking executives think non-traditional financial services providers are a threat to traditional banks - PwC

The remainder (46%) see smaller banks capturing share through increasing differentiation. Executives are also divided as to the threat posed by non-traditional new players: while 55% believe they pose a threat to traditional banks, 31% believe they presen

CITBA Financial Corporation Terminates Merger Transaction

CITBA Financial Corporation Mooresville, IN, the bank holding company of Citizens Bank, today announced that it had elected to terminate the proposed merger transaction between CITBA and its bank subsidiary and Merchants Bancorp, of Carmel, Indiana, and i

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