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Growing a new branch

Independent Banker

Ted Whitehurst, Providence Bank president and CEO, led the charge to open a new brick-and-mortar location of the Raleigh, N.C., Location: Raleigh, N.C. When COVID-19 rocked the world in March 2020, Ted Whitehurst was reviewing a lease for a new branch of Providence Bank in Raleigh, N.C. community bank during the pandemic.

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Abrigo CEO Wayne Roberts announces retirement

Abrigo

He built a strong leadership team and an employee base that has been recognized consistently as one of the best places to work in Austin, Texas, and Raleigh, N.C., He was named an Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 Central Texas Award Winner. and in bank technology nationally.

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Banking's Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: 2023 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Although one might argue that First Citizens BancShares of Raleigh is a SIFI as it climbed to the 19th largest in the country with its Silicon Valley Bridge Bank acquisition from the FDIC, and that the FDIC designated SVB as systemically important. The first bank to crack the Top 5 over $50 billion did so in 2020.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

million gets the vaunted consumer lender a much-prized bank charter, low-cost deposits to juice current earnings, and a business lending capability to drive future growth. You tell us. We salute a legend of lending and credit union leadership. SoFi’s March acquisition of Golden Pacific Bancorp for $22.3 82% to over 2.3%

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