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Opus Bank to Pay $25M for Escrow, 1031 Exchange Firms

01/22/15

Opus Bank in Irvine, Calif., has agreed to buy a pair of nonbanking businesses.

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Regulate Banks by Complexity, Not Size

01/14/15

Small banks arenÂ't disappearing Â-- theyÂ're just getting bigger. Meanwhile, their large competitors are exiting business lines and selling off units. These changes suggest that regulators would be better off issuing rules based on lendersÂ' level of complexity, relieving institutions that operate by a core banking model of unnecessary burdens.

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Is the FDIC Subsidizing a Too Big to Fail Merger?

11/20/14

A government tool for unloading failed bank assets and minimizing FDIC losses may be used as a vehicle to publicly subsidize private gains in the proposed merger between CIT Group and OneWest Bank.

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Creating a 'Win-Win' in M&A, Part V: How BB&T Guarded Against Hostile Bids

11/17/14

John A. Allison writes in his new book that he feared for years that predecessors of Wachovia or Bank of America would try and force BB&T to sell itself. In this excerpt, he explains how he kept the banking giants at bay. Part 5 of 5.

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Creating a 'Win-Win' in M&A, Part IV: BB&T's Strategy for Buying Nonbanks

11/14/14

Nonbank acquisitions require a certain level of expertise, John Allison writes in his new book. In this excerpt, he discusses how BB&T views the insurance business and why he stuck with subprime auto finance when others bailed. Part 4 of 5.

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