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Triad Business Bank's start coincided with the PPP program, a fortuitous occurrence.

N.C. community banks step up in Paycheck Protection Program.

United Community Banks has big N.C. ambitions.

Since its formation in 2008, Live Oak Bank has been one of the most interesting stories in North Carolina banking. It modeled itself as nontraditional bank, having no branches, tellers or ATMs. [...]

After 114 years in business, Piedmont Federal Savings Bank is getting around to making small business loans. Piedmont is the state's biggest mutual bank.

Bryan Jordan, perhaps the most successful banker to come out of Salisbury since Wall Street legend Julian Robertson, had a cool homecoming last week. The CEO of Memphis-based First Horizon [...]

Cathy Bessant, honored today with UNC Charlotte’s annual Distinguished Service Award, told a lunch crowd of about 200 people that she dreads her annual performance review. But the painful [...]

At 71, Bill Long is trying to do something no one else has done in North Carolina since 2008: start a new community bank. He’s a veteran banker with a lot of friends in Iredell County, where he’s [...]

With First South Bank of Washington, N.C. selling this week, North Carolina loses another homegrown community bank based in a small city.

Eleven of 14 appointed members of the N.C. State Banking Commission are slated to roll off as of April 1. Gov. Roy Cooper has chance to remold the board.