Banking

Christmas comes early for credit unions

Masked revolutionaries didn’t show up last weekend at local credit unions, but plenty of money-toting customers did.

Village Bank to enter regulatory agreement

Hampered by high levels of souring loans, the $600 million Midlothian-based bank said this week that it expects to enter into a consent order with the FDIC. And the bank is looking to sell its 80,000-square-foot headquarters building and close one of its branches in January.

Downtown gets a fox den

Middleburg Bank opened its first local branch last week.

Chesapeake rings its bell in Richmond

The former head of Bank of Virginia is back in the game — this time at a Kilmarnock bank that just set up shop in Richmond.

Banking on a turnaround

The region’s largest stalled development has an ambitious plan to get out of bankruptcy and pay its creditors every cent owed.

Banks shuffle local ranks

The FDIC’s annual market share report reveals that some national banks are losing ground in Richmond, and smaller local banks are scooping up that cash.

Too good to pass up

A two-year old Richmond bank is the first of its local peers to tap into a government small-business lending program.