Stuart Gulliver’s final set of results at HSBC Holdings Plc weren’t quite the swansong he’d hoped for as he hands the reins over to his long-term lieutenant, John Flint.
Associated Banc-Corp has agreed to buy an insurance broker in Milwaukee after unveiling agreements to buy a community bank last summer and a Chicagoland wealth management firm in the fall.
People's Bank of Commerce in southern Oregon decided it had to diversify to survive, so when a director heard a factoring firm he co-founded was up for sale, the bank seized the moment. Now it has other deals in mind.
Darryl White sees an opportunity for Bank of Montreal to take more market share in the United States, and he’s betting on investments in mortgage lending, commercial banking and capital markets to get there.
Patriot National in Connecticut would become the latest community bank to ramp up small-business lending with its $81 million deal to acquire Hana Financial's much larger SBA lending unit.
