Old National making entry into Minnesota with $303M acquisition
Old National Bancorp. announced plans Tuesday to acquire St. Paul, Minnesota-based Anchor Bancorp Inc.
Old National Bancorp. announced plans Tuesday to acquire St. Paul, Minnesota-based Anchor Bancorp Inc.
The Fed noted Wednesday that inflation has stayed undesirably low even though the job market keeps strengthening. Many economists say they foresee no further rate increases this year unless inflation picks up.
The two banks have overlapping footprints. As a result, First Financial said that after the merger is complete it expects to close 45 to 50 offices.
The Fishers-based company said loan growth helped boost profit during the second quarter.
The merged companies make up the second-largest financial holding corporation headquartered in Indiana, behind Evansville-based Old National Bank Bancorp.
Executives eligible for the additional pay, if certain benchmarks are hit through the company’s bankruptcy, include Kevin J. Kovacs, HHGregg’s chief financial officer and acting CEO.
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen told Congress on Wednesday that the central bank expects to keep raising a key interest rate at a gradual pace and also plans to start trimming its massive bond holdings this year.
The Federal Reserve has raised its key interest rate for the third time in six months, providing its latest vote of confidence in a slow-growing but durable economy.
There isn’t much suspense about what the Fed will announce regarding a rate hike when its latest policy meeting ends Wednesday. But economic observers are watching for additional reasons.
Republicans say many requirements imposed under what is known as the Dodd-Frank Act, named after its Democratic sponsors, have harmed economic growth by making it harder for consumers and businesses to get loans.
Restaurants, grocers and other businesses celebrated Thursday as House Republicans backed off efforts to eliminate the cap on fees that banks can charge retailers when customers use debit cards.
In-branch transactions are declining as customers complete more business via online and mobile banking. Still, banks say physical offices remain important for a variety of reasons.
While the measure is expected to pass the full House, in the Senate, it will need 60 votes to become reality, meaning the GOP will need several Democrats to join their effort.
A statement the Fed issued Wednesday after its latest policy meeting noted that the economy slowed sharply during the January-March quarter but that it expects that slump to be “transitory.”
The center, to be called the Old National Bank Center for Closely Held Business, will have its offices in Butler’s Andre B. Lacy School of Business, but it will work with companies around the state.
The Fishers-based bank launched a municipal lending department last quarter, which the company said helped boost its performance.
Bank of America already has customers here, but is now opening an actual branch—in the street-level retail space in the new Cummins Inc. distribution headquarters downtown.
The National Bank of Indianapolis is set to begin upgrading the facade of its flagship location at Pennsylvania and Market streets—the first improvement to the building's outside in more than 40 years.
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen did not specifically address the timing for future rate hikes, but her remarks support the view that future hikes are coming.
An Indianapolis judge has ruled in favor of three former Irwin Union Bank & Trust Co. executives, closing the book on a civil suit that the bank’s bankruptcy trustee originally filed in 2011.