Banking

‘They lured me back into the fray’

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Nearly two years after his last employer was acquired by an out-of-town competitor, a veteran local banking executive has come off the sidelines to help a Northern Virginia-based bank continue its push into the Richmond market.

Local bank opens new branch in Chester, sells one in Cville

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Keeping its foot on the accelerator after announcing its latest acquisition, a Richmond-based bank this month unveiled a new branch in Chesterfield County and sold a shuttered location to a competitor in Wahoo country.

Former Union Bank CEO back in the game

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Billy Beale has stepped back into a chief executive role – this time to help right the ship at a struggling Midlothian-based institution.

C&F goes back for seconds in C-ville

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A local bank is expanding its branch presence in Charlottesville beyond the city’s Downtown Mall, with a second outpost in the works and a third likely at some point.

Breaking News: Union Bank strikes $610M deal for greater push into NoVA

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Richmond’s Union Bank & Trust has hit the accelerator once again with yet another acquisition, this time making a play for its first significant piece of the Northern Virginia market. The $13 billion downtown-based bank announced a deal this morning to acquire Access National Bancorp out of Reston in an all stock transaction valued at… Read more »