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By Staff Report / Monday, October 21st, 2013 / Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Latest news / Comments Off on Heritage Oaks to buy Mission Community for $56M
Paso Robles-based Heritage Oaks Bancorp is buying Mission Community Bank of San Luis Obispo for $56.4 million in cash and stock, the firms announced Oct. 21. Under the terms of the deal, Mission Community shareholders will get $8 million in cash and about 7.5 million shares of Heritage Oaks stock. The deal is valued at Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, October 18th, 2013 / Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Central Coast, Real Estate, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Banking on downtown SLO: Heritage Oaks buys former Union Bank building
The multimillion-dollar sale of a prime property in the heart of the Central Coast’s busiest downtown comes amid a flurry of building activity that had some developers bidding on the lot in hopes of developing the bank building’s adjacent parking lot, which faces the corner of Marsh and Osos streets. But the timing was too good for Heritage Oaks to pass the location up, said Simone Lagomarsino, the bank’s CEO.
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, September 6th, 2013 / Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Latest news / Comments Off on MB&T chief highlights role of community banks
Locally based banks that take deposits from and make loans to the community form the lifeblood of many regional economies, and yet these institutions have only recently secured a voice in the national debate on financial policy. That was the view from Janet Garufis, CEO and president of Santa Barbara-based Montecito Bank & Trust, in Read More →
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, September 6th, 2013 / Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Small Business, Top Stories / Comments Off on Small-business groups can match banks, borrowers
Business is as much about who you know as what you know.
Long-time art gallery owner Sylvia White came to realize that as she struggled to get financing to purchase a building in downtown Ventura. She had purchased the gallery space with owner financing several years earlier. But now the five-year period on that high-interest loan was coming up, and White needed a bank to take over. She was turned down by lenders again and again.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, July 26th, 2013 / Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Law, Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on Make It Work creditors demand $150K from defunct firm
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, July 5th, 2013 / Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Law, Top Stories / Comments Off on Ventura County Business Bank investors sue over stock sale, merger
Investors in Ventura County Business Bank, a small commercial lender that was acquired by Royal Business Bank in 2011, are suing its new owners and former executives, alleging fraud and misrepresentation. The plaintiffs — Mark Engle, Paul Turley, Mark Ioele, Ronnie Case, Dennis McCarty, Kuen Sil Park, Holger Blank and Farihan Uwaydah — allege that Read More →
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