Community banking
Community banking
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The Ohio company agreed to buy TransCounty Title Agency, which has five offices around Columbus.
September 4 -
A number of banks have stepped up efforts to lend to residential developers, though they are mindful of missteps made before the financial crisis.
August 20 -
The Michigan company had been operating under the supervisory agreement since 2010.
August 17 -
Steve Calk, the head of The Federal Savings Bank, was a "co-conspirator" in an effort to defraud the Chicago bank, a prosecutor said at the trial of former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort. Could Calk be charged with a crime?
August 13 -
Stephen Calk, the CEO of The Federal Savings Bank, expedited approval of a mortgage to the onetime Trump campaign chair in hopes of winning a job as Treasury secretary or housing secretary, a former bank employee testified Friday.
August 10 -
Five potential witnesses against Paul Manafort, including accountants and bankers, were identified Monday as a U.S. judge gave the former Trump campaign chairman's lawyers more time to review tens of thousands of documents handed over to them in recent weeks.
July 25 -
Level One Bank in Farmington, Mich., has hired a team of mortgage bankers from MB Financial, which previously announced it was shutting down this business line.
July 10 -
A new court filing suggests that Stephen Calk was named to a 13-member economic advisory team in 2016 in exchange for approving a $9.5 million loan to former campaign manager Paul Manafort.
July 6 -
The deal is designed to improve capital ratios and reduce risk at the Seattle company.
July 3 -
Commercial real estate is their bread and butter, but many banks are scaling back in this vital loan category. Here’s why.
June 29 -
Ruoff Financial will make its first push into banking with the purchase of SBB Bancshares.
June 19 -
Blue Lion Capital, which has been a vocal critic of the Seattle company's strategy, also wants management to consider selling its MSR portfolio.
June 15 -
The Seattle company is firing 127 people, or a tenth of its mortgage staff, after enduring months of slow activity.
June 14 -
Angel Oak Commercial Lending has acquired a controlling interest in lender Cherrywood Mortgage in order to strengthen its focus on small-balance commercial lending.
June 5 -
Lenders would have a lighter data-reporting burden, but they may end up deciding to collect the data anyway.
May 25 -
As President Trump signed the regulatory relief bill into law on Thursday, most of the attention was on a provision to help regional banks with more than $50 billion of assets. But a majority of the new law is aimed at helping institutions below $10 billion. Here's how.
May 24 -
Union Bankshares has reached an agreement under which Federal Savings Bank will originate mortgages in its branches.
May 23 -
The bill passed by the House took a more cautious approach to relief than prior legislative proposals but has still been hailed by banking industry groups.
May 22 -
The Nashville company significantly reduced the 2018 earnings projection for its mortgage business.
May 21 -
The company has also hit its goal of having half of total loans tied to customers around Atlanta.
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