Regulator to ag banks: Plan now for the bad times
National bank regulators have a message for banks making a lot of agriculture loans: Plan for the bad times during the good times.
Since March, at least 10 area commercial bankers have switched or are switching from one bank or organization to another.
National bank regulators have a message for banks making a lot of agriculture loans: Plan for the bad times during the good times.
A regulator’s quarterly report on Kansas chartered credit unions showed another good three-month period for the financial cooperatives.
Equity Bank’s top executive on Wednesday announced a couple of key personnel changes as well as the departure of its holding company president.
The good news in the first quarter of 2013 is that the 10 biggest Kansas-based banks doing business in the Wichita area made a profit in the three-month period that ended March 31.
A Credit Union of America executive will be the next president of Wichita Federal Credit Union.
The number of bank and credit union branches across the country will contract by more than a third over the next decade, according to a recent report
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.