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U.S. Banker August 2009 Alan Kline |
Best of the Bunch There are a number of mid-tier banks (with assets between $2 billion and $10 billion) out there that have largely avoided the land mines and are still delivering solid, if not spectacular, returns.  |
U.S. Banker June 2010 Alan Kline |
The New Benchmark Top 200 Community Banks and Thrifts as of Dec. 31. Ranked by 3-Year Average ROE. Last year s minimum list-making mark is this year's mark of overachievement.  |
U.S. Banker April 2007 Lee Conrad |
Making Hay While The Sun Shines Top 200 mid-tier banks ranked by 3-Year Average ROE.  |
U.S. Banker August 2005 Lee Conrad |
Best In Middle While smaller banks offer the personal touch, the big guys now are stealing their best customers: small business. Still, mid-tier banks in U.S. Banker's annual ranking posted some very healthy numbers  |
U.S. Banker August 2006 |
Mid Tiers' Performance Proves Size Matters Little While the industry may be at odds over what accurately defines a community bank versus a mid-tier one, strong financial performance isn't at issue. Mid tiers have made that point this year.  |
U.S. Banker May 2008 Holly Sraeel et al. |
Playing Both Ends Against the Middle There are plenty of mid-tier banks and thrifts posting respectable performances.  |
U.S. Banker June 2011 Bonnie McGeer |
A Lower Bar Even as economic recovery begins, the performance of community banks and thrifts as a group continues to reflect stress.  |
U.S. Banker June 2007 Lee Conrad |
Top Banks Focus on the 'E' in ROE A list of the top 200 Community banks ranked by 3-Year Average ROE.  |
U.S. Banker June 2009 Alan Kline |
Slow and Steady Wins the Race Banks in areas that never quite boomed, and, therefore, never went bust, are emerging as the industry's stars.  |
U.S. Banker August 2004 Lee Conrad |
At Mid-Tier Banks, Low-Cost Deposits, Strict Cost Controls Reign Supreme As top-line revenue has felt the pressure from falling interest rates over the past few years, banks have driven down their cost of funding as much as possible in order to maintain net margins.  |
U.S. Banker August 2001 Bennett & Hackett |
Co-Prosperity, the Backbone of Community Banking Ranking community banks based on return on equity and growth in per-share earnings.  |
U.S. Banker March 2007 Lee Conrad |
Best of the Best: Banking's Top 100 The banking industry had a tough gig last year. For proof, take a look at the falling trend in annual return-on-equity figures. Here are the top 100: TCF Financial Corp... Bank of Hawaii Corp... U.S. Bancorp... etc.  |
U.S. Banker May 2002 Robert A. Bennett |
Smaller Is Better Smaller was better in 2001 among the nation's 100 largest banks and thrifts. For the most part, the success of the smaller companies reflects their ability to focus on highly profitable niches -- especially mortgage originations during last year's boom...  |
Financial Advisor March 2007 |
Where They Stand Separate accounts ranked by three-year returns as of December 31: Large-cap growth... Large-cap value... etc.  |
BusinessWeek September 4, 2008 |
Frequently Asked Questions Frequently Asked Questions regarding BusinessWeek's methodology for choosing great employers for launching a career.  |
U.S. Banker February 2002 Robert A. Bennett |
Bank Trust Assets Defy Markets Despite the decline of stock markets in 2000, bank trust assets rose to a massive $19.2 trillion...  |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2010 Charles Keenan |
Home Run Hitters: Results of the 2009 Bank Performance Scorecard In what's been one of the toughest years in banking, institutions that played it fiscally conservative ended up batting a thousand on our annual performance rankings.  |
U.S. Banker October 2008 Sausner, Malakian & Sraeel |
Diversity and Profit: Working the Fundamentals Top 3 banking teams.  |
U.S. Banker January 2006 |
The Best in Class Put Fundamentals Into Play Without question, the CFO has become the new face of financial services. A key player in any organization's strategic team, the CFO today must also juggle financial, risk and compliance efforts.  |
U.S. Banker July 2005 Lee Conrad |
Stalled Deposit Growth Challenges Community Banks The value of community bank stocks remains high, but many challenges await. Buckle up. The road ahead could get bumpy.  |
Inc. October 2007 |
Update Two more companies join a list of the 500 fastest growing companies.  |
U.S. Banker August 2003 Michael Dumiak |
Coast to Coast There are as many ways to mint money as grains of sand on the beach. In the mid-Atlantic, the WSFS team does it with savvy sales moves. In Michigan, Flagstar's moving mortgages. In the shadow of the Golden Gate, Westamerica is humming and looking to buy. They lead the USB 100 of mid-tier banks.  |
BusinessWeek September 3, 2009 Louis Lavelle |
How We Ranked the Employers The methodology used for BusinessWeek's Best Places to Launch a Career ranking is designed to identify the characteristics of great employers.  |
The Motley Fool November 23, 2011 Robert Eberhard |
Finding Value in Southwest Regional Banks The Southwest region is really just a three-state area, dominated by Texas. Five of the eight banks on my list are based in Texas.  |
U.S. Banker March 2008 Joseph Rosta |
2007: The Year Of the Silent Scream The banking-sector recession showed up clearly in an annual ranking of the top 100 institutions by three-year average return on equity.  |
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2009 Stephen E. Gerard |
Pharma Confidential In these tough times, how does pharma see its future? How confident are top executives in the future of the industry and their own company? Does size make a difference? Operations executives from a cross section of large, mid-tier, and specialty companies answer these questions and more.  |
U.S. Banker December 2009 |
Noted and Noteworthy Any bank creeping up on the $10 billion-asset threshold might want to think twice about making that next acquisition.  |