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Dean Meiszer was no stranger to merger and acquisition negotiations — but a year ago he was in a different place when at the table with Republic Bank and Trust Co.

A former high-ranking executive with Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) is facing the possibility of prison time as well as millions of dollars in fines tied to the bank's notorious fake accounts scandal.

Carrie Tolstedt, who was once the head of community banking for Wells Fargo, has agreed to plead guilty to obstructing regulators' investigation into the company's sales practices, according to a press release from the U.S. District Attorney's Office, Central District of California.

Prosecutors say Tolstedt…

The North Carolina Bankers Association has joined with advocacy organizations to help ease the search for growth capital in North Carolina.

CFG Bank is the largest bank headquartered in Baltimore.

Brown Advisory says it has a client retention rate of 98% over the past 10 years.

Reggie Newson, chief community impact and advocacy officer of Ascension Wisconsin, has been a driving force in government and the private sector in southeastern Wisconsin.

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Raymond James, like other financial institutions during the pandemic, was flooded with cash, but it didn’t reinvest clients’ balances in higher-yielding securities.

The firm had the highest ranking of south central Kansas-based groups on the Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Management Teams list.

Despite a tumultuous economic start to the year — and the wildest week banking has seen since 2008 — the team at Wilmington Trust is still feeling pretty good about the predictions it made in December.