UMB rethinking branch banking through pilot program
UMB Financial Corp. is piloting a new branch concept as part of a broader effort to position its branch banking for the future.
Citizens Bank of Kansas hopes to roll a consumer finance business — and its sister company — into the bank later this year.
UMB Financial Corp. is piloting a new branch concept as part of a broader effort to position its branch banking for the future.
While the actual number is by no means huge, the number of Kansas-headquartered banks seeking to convert their charters from national to state is as high through April as it was in all of 2012.
Wells Fargo is moving its newly formed commercial banking team downtown.
Simmons First National Bank is one of the nation’s most active bidders on banks that have failed, according to a report released Friday.
Credit Union of America is one of the nation’s best-performing credit unions.
When Doug Neff joined Commerce Bank’s Wichita region as its commercial banking leader, he was 34.
Jim Faith’s move to Emprise Bank reunites the banking executive with some of the people he worked for and with in his first job in Wichita nearly 30 years ago.
Intrust Bank has named its longtime chief operating officer, Jay Smith, as its new president.
CrossFirst Bank, the Leawood-based bank co-founded by former Bank IV and Intrust executive Ron Baldwin, announced plans Wednesday for its first Wichita building – one that’s much larger than a typical branch bank.
Kansas bank loan concentrations increased in 2012 in residential real estate and multi-family, or apartments, but decreased in commercial and industrial and commercial real estate, according to a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. report.
Wells Fargo is ramping up its commercial banking business in Wichita with the hiring of four commercial banking veterans.
Simmons First National Bank, the $1.9 billion Arkansas-based bank that took over the failed Security Savings Bank nearly three years ago, is stepping up its commercial banking business with the hiring of a second commercial lender.
The regulator of Kansas-chartered credit unions acknowledged Monday that it was another strong year for the state cooperatives, with total loans and assets increasing in 2012.
On a small conference table in James Nastars’ office sit more than half a dozen individually decorated plastic boxes.
After 38 years in the credit union industry – 19 of them as president of Wichita Federal Credit Union – Wayne Warfel will retire May 31.
An official from the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank told a group of area bankers Wednesday that the Fed thinks the industry is in much better shape, but its examiners are concerned about long-term bank earnings.
Credit union earnings reached an all-time high in 2012, the National Credit Union Administration reported Friday.
Bank of America confirmed Thursday that its lone branch in Newton is slated to be closed.
A couple of months after PenFed Group established a foothold in Wichita through its acquisition of Prudential Dinning-Beard Realtors, the Virginia-based firm is looking to do mortgages here.