Having received regulatory approvals, the founders of a Georgia de novo community bank are closing in on a minimum capital ...

The largest bank based in Georgia kicked off the new year by finalizing its blockbuster merger with a Southeastern rival, ...

Georgia’s banks are in a strong position in the wake of the failure of two large American banks this month, the deputy commissioner of the state agency that oversees banks said Tuesday. “The state of ...

Both the Georgia Bankers Association and the chairman of the House Banks and Banking Committee said Monday that the health of Georgia banks is strong, even in the wake of the much-publicized collapse ...

Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. (NYSE: PNFP), a Georgia corporation, today announced the completion of the merger of ...

Feb. 23—TIFTON, Ga. — South Georgia Banking Company announces Board of Director position changes as well as staff promotions at the bank's Second Street location in Tifton. "These changes represent ...

PARKERSBURG — United Bankshares Inc. announced its 34th acquisition, a merger with Piedmont Bancorp Inc., the Georgia-based parent company of The Piedmont Bank. The merger will strengthen United’s ...

Conyers-based Eastside Commercial Bank was closed Friday by bank regulators, becoming the first Georgia bank to fail in more than a year. The small bank, which has two branches in Rockdale and ...

Georgia's failed banks are multiplying, but very few homegrown institutions without private-equity backing are buying them. On Friday, Community and Southern Bank in Carrollton, Ga., reinvigorated by ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman asks “What’s the matter with Georgia?” this morning in an op-ed focused on the state’s bank failures (we’ve had more than any ...

GIBSON, Ga. -- The banner above FirstCity Bank still reads "Celebrating 100 Years of Service," but the 690 residents of this rural community aren't in the mood — not since government regulators locked ...

During the mid-1990s, the World Bank supported the government’s "first generation reforms" to remove the remaining market distortions and controls inherited from the central planning system. It also ...