Banking & Financial Services
Overland Park-based Waddell & Reed is laying off about 150 people in its transactional-processing operations and will outsource those positions, the investment-management company's officials said during its second-quarter earnings call. The layoffs and move toward outsourcing are expected to be…
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One of Ingram's Best Companies to Work might now be an even more attractive workplace. Law firm Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP, of Kansas City, was the lead counsel on a class action settlement by credit-reporting firm Equifax relating to a…
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[caption id="attachment_12279" align="alignleft" width="300"] Hagedorn in 2017.[/caption] Michael Hagedorn, the former president and chief executive officer of UMB Financial Corp., is now the chief financial officer of Valley National Bancorp, based in Wayne, N.J. Hagedorn unexpectedly left UMB last year…
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Property owners in Jackson County now have until July 29 to filed a property tax assessment appeal with the county. The prior deadline was today.The county has already received in excess of 21,000 appeals to property assessments that, in some…
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The damaging floods in the region seem never ending this year, and property owners have certainly felt the pain. For some small-business owners in the Kansas City, Mo., region, though, some of that might be abated. Non-farm and non-agricultural small…
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[caption id="attachment_22007" align="alignleft" width="480"] KCB Bank headquarters, in Kearney.[/caption] Academy Bank is growing in the Northland with the purchase off KCB Bank and its six branches there in various cities, as well as Bonner Springs. Dickinson Financial Corp. (DFC), Academy's…
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Agribusiness-heavy at the top, the Ingram’s 100 list is remade after some of Kansas City’s largest private companies are acquired by national and global enterprises. As if anyone needed evidence of Kansas City’s role in the worldwide…
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Earlier this year, a commentary in Forbes took note of how major national banks had a stranglehold on growth in that sector, wielding consumer-friendly tech tools to secure nearly half of all new deposit-account openings last year—despite having less than…
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Country Club Bank recently announced several executive personnel changes, the biggest being Joe Close's promotion to president, in an increasingly competitive Kansas City banking environment. Close, formerly Metro regional president and chair of the regional presidents' council, takes the title…
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The parent companies of two prominent Johnson County banks, Morrill & Janes Bank and Trust Co. and Bank of Blue Valley, have reached a merger agreement that will allow M&J parent Heartland Financial USA to acquire Bank of Blue Valley.…
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