Robert Barba is the technology editor of American Banker. Robert previously served as deputy editor of American Banker's dealmaking and strategy section. He joined American Banker in late 2007 as a community banking reporter, just in time for the financial crisis. Robert played a lead role in covering community banks' struggle for survival in the years following the downturn. Robert has appeared on Fox Business to discuss bank failures and the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program. Prior to joining American Banker, Robert was a general business reporter at Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers in Stuart, Fla. He began his career as a business desk intern at The Denver Post and Boulder Daily Camera. Robert is based in New York.
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John W. Allison is always on the hunt for non-dilutive deals that will boost his Arkansas company's earnings. That has largely led to deals for Florida banks, but Home just agreed to buy nearly $300 million in nationwide commercial real estate credits and recruited a team to open a loan production office in New York.
April 2 -
Protests by community groups and now a public hearing threaten to delay the completion of CIT's acquisition of OneWest Bank. The deal will probably get approved, and it might not get delayed too long, but all those "probablys" and "mights" are what make the proponents of more big M&A queasy.
February 6 -
Federal Savings Bank in Chicago has teamed up with West Suburban Bank in Lombard, Ill., to offer mortgage products across West Suburban's 37-branch network.
September 22 -
Bank buyers and sellers should pay attention to the Fed's recent approval of Cullen/Frost's acquisition of WNB Bancshares. Cullen/Frost had to agree to improve its fair lending and other functions, underscoring the importance of buyers who work well in resolving compliance and other problems with regulators.
May 21 -
The Michigan company has pledged $1 million to help people buy homes in the Marygrove College neighborhood. Homeowners can get up to $25,000 and have $5,000 shaved off the balance each year they live there.
April 9 -
JPMorgan Chase's acquisitions of Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual during the meltdown were once seen as bargains and more recently second-guessed in light of the bank's $13 billion mortgage settlement. The pain will pay off in the long run, experts say.
October 24 -
Sometimes the best buyers turn out to be sellers.
September 26 -
A recent bank deal in St. Louis shows that M&A can be a real time-saver despite the grunt work.
September 23 -
HomeStreet is hoping two recent deals will help make the "home" part of its name a little less important.
August 1 -
Rivals of MB Financial and Taylor Capital have been hit with questions about how the all-Chicago deal will remake the local banking landscape.
July 29 -
Associated Banc-Corp announced second-quarter earnings of $47 million, up 12% from a year earlier thanks to higher net interest income and mortgage banking revenue.
July 19 -
Ocwen's agreement to buy $78 billion in mortgage servicing rights from OneWest is part of a string of deals by it and other nonbanks meant to wring value from remnants of the mortgage meltdown that many banks seek to unload.
June 17 -
Former Sen. Judd Gregg is trying to balance Wall Street's need to fix its public image with the impulse to protect its livelihood from policymakers.
June 4 -
Banks are hungry for earning assets, but General Electric is poised to offer up its consumer business to the masses.
May 24 -
Popular is using a recent windfall to bankroll an aggressive sell-off of struggling mortgages.
May 15 -
Two Florida banks have found a way around squabbling over the value of troubled credits: let the seller keep them.
March 26 -
The midsize New York mortgage lender and the West Coast bank created to house the IndyMac assets are worlds apart in many ways, but their rumored deal is strange enough to work, experts say.
March 14 -
The recent sale of a nearly vacant mall in Kentucky serves as a good case study in unwinding troubled loan participations.
January 7 -
BankFinancial said it had tried "accelerated dispositions" with some of repossessed assets, selling $2.4 million of other real estate owned and accepted offers for another $4.3 million.
November 9 -
Flagstar posted gain-on-sale income of $334 million in the third quarter, an impressive 57% increase from 2Q.
October 25
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