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United Federal Credit Union has named Todd Sharpe branch manager at its new Hendersonville South branch at 203 Greenville Highway in the Fresh Market Shopping Center. Read Story »
Tags: south gateway | banking
Work is finally under way on the new State Employees Credit Union building two years after SECU bought the land. Read Story »
Tags: banking | SECU | State Employees Credit Union
First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company and Entegra Financial Corp. announced today the signing of a definitive merger agreement. Read Story »
Tags: banking
SmartFinancial Inc., the parent company of SmartBank, and Entegra Financial Corp., the parent company of Entegra Bank, have signed a merger agreement under which Entegra will combine with SmartFinancial in a strategic merger of equals. Read Story »
Tags: banking | Macon Bank | Entegra Bank | Smartbank
Bob G. Sherman, who started his business career in the family grocery store and went on to a banking career that helped propel Hendersonville's growth in the 1960s and ‘70s, died Monday in Paducah, Ky. He was 85. Read Story »
Tags: banking
Mountain Credit Union has announced the grand opening of the region's first ever student-run in-school credit union branch, which is at West Henderson High School. Read Story »
Tags: West Henderson High School | banking
Tags: economic development | local government borrowing | banking | local government budgets
Mountain 1st Bank's home office and its branches got new signs over the New Year's holiday and reopened on Thursday as First Citizens Bank branches. Read Story »
Tags: Mountain 1st | banking
Mountain 1st shareholders have received ballots to vote on merging the troubled bank with First Citizens Bank, a step that Mountain 1st directors and officers have strongly advocated. Read Story »
Tags: economy | Mountain 1st | banking
Don't miss this week's issue of Hendersonville Lightning, on the street a day early and in homes via U.S. mail on Wednesday. Read Story »
Tags: Mountain 1st | banking
First Citizens Bank's purchase of Mountain 1st Bank & Trust Co. would bring to a close a sour chapter of local banking history if Mountain 1st shareholders and federal regulators approve the transaction. Read Story »
Tags: Mountain 1st | banking | First Citizens Bank
First Citizens Bank and Hendersonville-based Mountain 1st Bank announced a merger on Wednesday under which Mountain 1st will receive $10 million. Of the total, $8 million will be used to repay a TARP loan and exit the 2008 bank rescue program and $2 million will go to Mountain 1st shareholders, or 38 cents a share. Read Story »