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Sunflower Bank chairman and CEO Mollie Carter.

CEO sees growth ahead

BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | Today at 2:13 a.m.

Mollie Hale Carter doesn't dislike bank acquisitions. She just wants to make sure that her $1.7 billion bank can get more growth from purchasing another bank than it could through growing without an acquisition.

  • Promotion may mean move for UMB exec, but not yet

    BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 5 at 12:07 a.m.

    Craig Anderson's new appointment at UMB Bank could eventually mean a change of residence for the Wichita bank executive, but not now.

  • Ex-employee's suit against Bank of America claims unpaid wages

    BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 5 at 12:07 a.m.

    A former employee of Bank of America's Wichita call center has filed a lawsuit against his former employer alleging he is owed unpaid wages.

  • Goldman deals risky, secret

    BY GREG GORDON, McClatchy Newspapers | Nov. 3 at 5:49 a.m.

    NEW YORK — Inside the thick Goldman Sachs investment circular were the details of a secret, $2 billion deal channeled through a Caribbean tax haven.

  • CIT made handful of local loans

    BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 3 at 6:10 a.m.

    CIT Group, the New York-based lender that filed for bankruptcy protection Sunday, has made a handful of loans totaling millions of dollars in the Wichita area in the past few years, according to a Small Business Administration official.

  • FDIC chief backs finance reform

    BY DAVID TWIDDY, Associated Press | Nov. 2 at 11:04 p.m.

    MANHATTAN — The head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Monday said Congress needs to provide regulators greater tools to control the risky financial behavior that helped trigger the recession and to unwind major firms on the verge of collapse.

  • FDIC: Bank failures don't cost taxpayers

    BY DAVE CARPENTER, Associated Press | Oct. 27 at 1:04 a.m.

    CHICAGO — With the number of bank closings above 100 this year for the first time since 1992, the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says she's frustrated at perceptions that U.S. taxpayers are on the hook for the costs of those failures.

  • Small banks question regulation

    BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 24 at 12:09 a.m.

    A state banking official said Friday that a House committee's passage of a bill that would create another regulator is "concerning."

  • Deposits up 7% at Wichita banks

    BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 27 at 6:10 a.m.

    Total bank deposits grew by nearly 7 percent in the Wichita area to more than $10.3 billion, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.' s 2009 Deposit Market Share Report.

  • Treasury, Fed take stabs at exec pay

    By MARTIN CRUTSINGER and STEVENSON JACOBS, Associated Press | Oct. 27 at 6:10 a.m.

    WASHINGTON — The government unleashed efforts on two fronts Thursday to rein in outsized executive pay packages and limit the excessive risk-taking that fueled the financial crisis.

  • Area banks' interest to Treasury: $1.5 million

    BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 22 at 12:09 a.m.

    Wichita-area banks have paid the U.S. Treasury more than $1.5 million in interest payments as part of their participation in the Capital Purchase Program.

  • Bankers, FDIC hold 1st meeting

    BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 20 at 8:24 a.m.

    Bruce Schriefer was impressed with the reception he and 13 other bankers received last week at the first meeting of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.' s Advisory Committee on Community Banking.

  • Economy on way up for rural banks

    Associated Press | Oct. 17 at 12:05 a.m.

    OMAHA — For a second straight month, a survey of rural bankers in 11 Midwest and Plains states suggests economic conditions are improving but remain weak.

  • Regional bank enters regulatory agreement

    BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 17 at 12:05 a.m.

    A Junction City bank with four branches in the Wichita area has entered into a formal agreement with its regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

  • Credit union branches out

    BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 16 at 1:42 p.m.

    The state's second-largest credit union will invest more than $2 million to expand its branch network by nearly 40 percent over the next year or so.

  • B of A chief to take no 2009 pay

    BY ALISTAIR BARR, MarketWatch | Oct. 16 at 12:05 a.m.

    Bank of America Corp. said late Thursday that the U.S. government's "pay czar," Kenneth Feinberg, suggested to outgoing CEO Kenneth Lewis that he should take no compensation for 2009.

  • Altered act hurts credit unions

    BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 15 at 12:05 a.m.

    A late change to the federal Credit Card Act has cost local credit unions time and money, but relief for them might be on the way.

  • Lawmakers look at helping out small banks

    BY MARCY GORDON, Associated Press | Oct. 15 at 12:05 a.m.

    WASHINGTON — With regulators warning that rising losses on commercial real estate loans pose risks for U.S. banks, senators asked Wednesday for greater attention to be focused on vulnerable smaller banks.

  • Commercial real estate loans get closer looks

    BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 11 at 12:44 a.m.

    The days of exuberant commercial real estate lending are over.

  • Banks 'still overregulated'

    BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 2 at 6:44 a.m.

    When John Allison joined Branch Banking and Trust, also known as BB&T, he said it was "a small country bank" with $275 million in assets.

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