Bankruptcy Blogs

Ameris lands its 'crown jewel' with deal for Fidelity Southern

12/17/18

Ameris has agreed to pay $751 million for Atlanta-based Fidelity; the combined company would have $16 billion in assets.

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Community Banks with the Largest Portfolios of Home Equity Loans

12/17/18

On Sept. 30, 2018. Dollars in thousands.

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Community Banks with the Largest Farm Loan Portfolios

12/17/18

On Sept. 30, 2018. Dollars in thousands.

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How regulators besides the OCC can help fintechs

12/17/18

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has gotten the ball rolling for financial technology firms trying to operate a national platform, but the FDIC and Federal Reserve should act to remove other policy roadblocks.

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Wintrust's latest acquisition could present deposit opportunity

12/17/18

Chicago Deferred Exchange, which helps clients defer tax hits from property sales, had about $1 billion in deposit flows this year.

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Goldman charged in Malaysia scandal; banks face differing challenges

12/17/18

Malaysia files criminal charges against Goldman Sachs over 1MDB; Wall Street banks hit by market volatility while small banks face margin compression.

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Are branch deals still worthwhile?

12/16/18

Branch acquisitions, once a popular way to scale up in new markets, have started to go by the wayside in the digital age.

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Robinhood backs down after outcry over checking account

12/15/18

Robinhood Financial has rebranded its service, deleted tweets about its launch and scrubbed the page from its website.

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Almost Citizens -- by Sam Erman

12/15/18

For those of you, who like me have been following the Puerto Rican debt drama, this wonderful new book by Sam Erman of USC might be of interest.  There are many wonderful and insightful stories in this book that I was altogether unaware of, despite having spent a lot of time reading about Puerto Rico's bizarre constitutional status.  Ultimately though, the most intriguing and insightful aspect of the book, to me, was the connection that Sam draws between the strange "foreign in a domestic sense" status of Puerto Rico and the events surrounding Recon

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Trump names Mulvaney acting White House Chief of Staff

12/14/18

President Donald Trump on Friday named his budget director, Mick Mulvaney, as acting White House chief of staff, ending a tumultuous search to replace John Kelly, who the president pushed out without having lined up a successor.

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