M&A
M&A
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Rocket shrunk its workforce by about 20% year-over-year, while Academy cut 250 employees prior to being acquired by Guild Mortgage.
March 4 -
Rep. Maxine Waters, ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, led the letter, spurred by the recent merger announcement between Capital One and Discover, which the letter said would enable the merged company "to influence multiple points of the marketplace."
February 28 -
The lawmakers, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said the deal would further anti-consumer bank consolidation, but also criticized the OCC's proposed changes to the merger process, asking that they be strengthened.
February 26 -
The blockbuster merger proposal will be reviewed at a time when the Biden administration is expressing skepticism about consolidation. Its analysis will have to account for markets dominated by both big banks and the likes of Visa and Mastercard.
February 20 -
The deal involving Southern California Bancorp and California BanCorp, expected to close in the third quarter, would form a $4.6 billion-asset lender with a footprint spanning San Diego, Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.
January 30 -
Banks began marketing the loan, which funded a 47% stake purchase in Everise in early November. But the sale for the B3 rated debt struggled and dragged on for over a month.
December 22 -
In a deal arranged by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Pittsburgh bank has bought a portfolio from the wreckage of Signature Bank. The purchase should help PNC expand its fund banking business, which helps private equity firms manage liquidity and finance investments in the short term.
October 3 -
The trust will repay notes through a $160.7 million, floating-rate class benchmarked to the three-month Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR), and a $25.1 million of fixed-rate, class B.
September 6 -
The Canadian bank initially told investors the acquisition would result in more than $350 million in cost savings. But a recent analysis suggests that number could be even higher.
August 29 -
The job cuts come amid caution about the industry's growth potential in the second half of the year. Some 45,000 positions have been lost in banking and related industries over the last two-plus years.
August 21