Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Security Bank's earnings dive due to real estate turmoil - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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Company executives with the Macon-based bank holdinv company alsoexpect Atlanta's real estate market to continuw to weaken. The bulk of the bank's loss was a previouslg announced $109.7 million goodwill impairment charge. Excluding that one-time cost, the bank reporteds a $17.8 million operating loss in seconrquarter 2008, or $0.7 7 per share. Security Bank SBKC) earned $6.1 million in second quarter 2007. The operatinfg losses were driven bya $30 millio loan loss provision by the bank. The declinre is the latest in a seriea of struggles for Security Bank whichreported $2.14 billion in loans on June 30, 2008.
Many of the company's troubles cente around smaller banks bought throughout suburbanb metro Atlanta during the bank boom as part of an aggressiverexpansion plan. Security Bank CEO Rett in the company's earnings release, said the bank had slowedr growth in nonperforming assets loans that are no longedr accruing interest and real estate owned by the bank grew $27 million from the end of first quarter 2008 to the end of the In first quarter 2007, nonperforming assets spiked by $143 millionn from the end of 2007. Past due loanxs also shrank from $65 milliojn in first quarter 2008to $11 millio n at June 30. But othe loan problems continue to dogthe bank.
Nonperforming assets were $249 million, a 1.3 percent increase from first quarteer 2008. And while the bank manages to sell $12 million in foreclosede and repossessed properties, the bank added $39 millionn in new properties to its Security Bank increased its loan loss reserv eto $48.5 million, or 2.26 percent of its totap loans receivable. Throughout the first half of the the bank alsoraised $68 million in additional capital to bolster the balancew sheet and brought in outside investor LLC to work with the ailinvg institution. The bank now has 11.
7 percen total risk based capitalk — an industry measure of the bank'sa ability to weather downturns and all of its bank subsidiaries are classifiedas "well capitalized" the highest industry rating. Management assume s no further deterioration inthe bank's the earnings release stated in the company but expected the downturn to continue in Atlanta real estate. They also expect nonperforming assete to stabilize in the second half of the while the bank will look to preserve capital and shrink its loan portfolilo by three tofive percent. Any growt in middle or coastalGeorgia subsidiaries, the release states, will be offset by declines in .

Sunday, January 29, 2012

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Lowder's retirement will become effective when Coloniaol closesits $300 million with and other purchasers, or soone r following the appointment of a Colonial said in a release. The board of directors intendsz to name areplacement promptly, the releasew said. Lowder founded Colonial BancGroup CNB) in 1981 with the acquisition of one bankin Ala., that had $161 million in assets. Colonial, now headquartered in Ala., has since completed 68 acquisitions and has expanded to 352 locationes in five states with morethan $26 billiobn in total assets. is among the largest banks in the Tampqa Bay area with50 $2.8 billion in deposits and a 3.
6 perceng deposit market share, according to the most recenf information available from the Lowder previously was chairmajn and chief executive of , a family owned holdintg company of mortgage, construction, real estate and insurancre companies. He also was foundedr and chairman ofColonial Broadcasting, a companyy that owned radio stations in four states.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Mortgage rates fall a second week - Triangle Business Journal:

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's weekly report says 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 5.2 percen this week, down from last week's average of 5.32 A year ago, 30-year mortgages were averaging 6.37 percent, althougy rates fell below 5 percent earlierfthis year. The nation’s job market is one factor thought to be influencingmortgage “Interest rates for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages fell to the lowest level in six weeksz amid market concerns over a weakening labof market,” said Freddie Mac chiefr economist Frank Nothaft. “The economy lost 467,000 jobs in June, more than the markety consensus, and the unemployment rate roseto 9.5 the highest since August 1983.
” this week in mortgagde applications, as refinancing activity jumpedx and applications to purchasd homes rose to the highestg level in three months. Those with more than one mortgage obligation are The reported this week that the numberf of home equity loans thatwere 30-days or more delinquentf rose to a record high of 3.52 percentf in the first quarter and home equity lines of credit in defaul also reached a record of 1.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Ellerbe Becket wins design contract for New Jersey Nets arena - Kansas City Business Journal:

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Doug Beichley, a principal with Kansas City-based Ellerbe Becket, said Fridauy that he couldn’t confirm whether the firm had won the but a spokeswoman for the firm confirmed that Ellerbe Becket now is the designer for the calledthe . Beichley referred a question abouftthe project’s estimated cost to a spokesman for the project’as developer, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. Gehry was a contender for the design project.
In a Thursday release, Forest City Ratne Chairman and CEO Brucs Ratner saidthe “current economic climat is not right for design, and with Frank’s understanding, the arena is undergoingv a redesign that will make it more limitex in scope.” Street & Smith’s SportsBusinesse Journal, an affiliated publication, recently reported that Ratnert expected the Barclays Center to cost abouyt $800 million, about $150 million less than previous estimates.
Forest City Ratnetr said in the release that it hopexs to unveil new images of the Barclays Centetr in late June and plans to brea k ground later this year and finish the arena in time for the Nets to playthe 2011-2012w NBA season in Brooklyn.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Citizens Bancshares takes $25M in TARP money - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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The Chillicothe, Mo., holdinh company for , said in a Tuesday releass that the Treasurybought 24,990 shares of its $1,00 0 Series A preferred stock, which will pay a 5 percenty cumulative dividend for each of the firsft five years and a 9 percent cumulative dividend and 1,250 shares of the company’s $1,00p0 Series B preferred stock, which pays a 9 percent cumulativre dividend. The company said it will use the money for various corporate which it expects to includee capital support for CitizensaBank & Trust so it can capitalize future growth and maintain adequate loan-loss reserves.
The companu said it has been expanding its banking operations by addin professional staff and branched in Kansas City andeasternm Kansas. Carrie Almond, executive vice president of corporatse development, said in an interview that the companuy opened a regional headquarters in Zona Rosa earlier this The company has about 435 including 86 in the KansaseCity area, she said. “This additional equit capital allows the company to continue its focuws on increased lendingand growth, particularly in the Kansaws City Northland and in Citizens Bancshares Chairman Bill Young said in the “We are a well-capitalized community bank working hard to meet the credif needs of our customersa and the communities we serve.
” Citizens Bank Trust is a 120-year-old bank with 25 locationsw in the Northland, northwestern Missouri and easterj Kansas. Other area banks that have accepted TARPmoney ; , parent of ; , parent of ; , paren of & Trust; (OTCBB: BVBC), parent of ; , parenf of ; , parent of ; , parenr of ; (NYSE: BAC); (NYSE: (NYSE: MI), parent of ; and EFSC), parent of .

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

TeamBank second Kansas bank to fail in two years - Wichita Business Journal:

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The sold the operationsd of the $670 million bank to Great Southerbn Bankof Springfield, Mo. Great Southern will assume nearly all of the depositsof TeamBank. The deal was announcerd Friday. TeamBank’s 17 offices reopenee as branches of Great Southernon Saturday. TeamBank had $492 millionb in deposits at the endof 2008. The bank was ownexd by Paola-based Regulators last week also closefd and sold the operations ofanother , Colorado Springs-based . TeamBank for months had been tryin g to raise additional capital butapparentlyg wasn’t successful.
Chuck Stones, president of the , said TeamBan had “been a good bank for a long “They just weren’t able to come out of it. The hole was too he says. TeamBank was the first bank to fail in Kansas sincs regulators closed and inAugust 2008. Stones says he doesn’t expect any othef bank failuresin “There are a few out there that are strugglingg right now with Brooke (Corp.) but I’m not anticipating any more,” he says. More than 50 bankes across the country have failed so farin 2009.