Archives

One of North Carolina’s biggest money managers thinks investors are likely to earn average annual returns of 4.6% in stocks and 2.5% in bonds over the next five years. That limited growth is [...]

KS Bancorp, a Johnston County-based community bank which is feeling takeover pressure from the Raleigh-based Holding family, says it wants to remain independent.

The Holding family is still pressing KS Bancorp Chief Executive Officer Harold Keen to sell his bank based in Smithfield in Johnston County. We wrote this summer on the Raleigh-based banking [...]

First Citizens Bank named Jay Irby Triangle area executive, responsible for the lender’s 31 offices in Wake, Durham, Orange and Chatham counties. He will be based in Raleigh. Irby has more [...]