'A contact sport': new president Danny Montelaro wants Union Planters to act like a community bank - Banking
As the new regional president for Union Planters Bank, Danny Montelaro has a simple mission: boost the bank's business. For the past seven years, Union Planters, headquartered in Memphis, has str

Doing the limbo: low interest rates add up to bad news for regional banks' profit margins - Banking
How low can they go? That's the worrisome question facing the banking industry as two-plus years of repeated cuts to short-term interest rates by the Federal Reserve could put the squeeze on bank

Joining the race: after years of little activity, Hancock Bank has launched an aggressive campaign to boost business in the Baton Rouge area - Banking
After years of simply being content to play third fiddle--and a distant one at that--in the Baton Rouge banking market, officials at Hancock Bank of ...