by MBJ Staff Published: February 21,2012
Tags: Banks, borrowers, crdit union, credit, customers, dividends, financial, financial institutions, financing, patronage
RIDGELAND — The Southern AgCredit board of directors recently approved a patronage dividend for borrowers based on the financing cooperative’s solid 2011 earnings. Checks are being mailed to customers in mid-February. Southern AgCredit customers will receive a check for their portion of the $6.35 million cash patronage, plus a statement detailing their share of the [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: February 8,2012
Tags: banking, Banks, colleges, consumer confidence, economy, education, electricity, energy, financial institutions, higher education, power, universities, utilities
STARKVILLE — Mississippians’ optimism about the economy jumped 10 percent from the third to fourth quarter of 2011, according to the latest Mississippi Index of Consumer Sentiment featured in the current edition of “Economy Watch.” Based at Mississippi State University’s College of Business, “Economy Watch” is published in cooperation with BankPlus and Entergy. More than [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: February 2,2012
Tags: assets, banking, Banks, deposits, earnings, finance, financial institutions, loans, publicly traded company, revenue
NATCHEZ — Britton & Koontz Capital Corporation reports net income for the year ended Dec. 31, 2011, of $394,000, or $.18 per basic and diluted share, compared to $1.9 million, or $.90 per basic and diluted share, for 2010. Net income for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2011, was $311,000, or $.15 per basic and [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 31,2012
Tags: banking, Banks, disaster, disaster recovery, federal government, financial institutions, hail, loans, natural disaster, rain, severe weather, small businesses, tornadoes, Weather, wind
NORTH MISSISSIPPI — The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding small businesses that Feb. 24 is the filing deadline for federal economic injury disaster loans available in Alcom, Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tippah and Tishomingo counties in Mississippi. The SBA declared a disaster because of severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds and flooding that began April 23, [...] [...]
BILOXI — Bauer Financial Inc. has ranked Keesler Federal Credit Union as a “Superior 5-Star” credit union. “The recent uproar against big banks has shed a whole new light on the credit union model, said Karen L. Dorway, president of Bauer Financial. “While the primary focus of the big banks is dividend payments, smaller banks and credit [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 20,2012
Tags: banking, Banks, finance, financial institutions, investing, investment, investors, publicly traded company, shares, stock, underwriters, underwriting
TUPELO — BancorpSouth Inc. reports the underwriters for the recently announced public offering of BancorpSouth Inc. common stock have exercised in full their over-allotment option to purchase an additional 1,428,571 shares at a public offering price of $10.50 per share. The company intends to use the net proceeds of this offering for general corporate purposes, [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 18,2012
Tags: banking and finance, Banks, deposits, earnings, financial institutions, income, loan losses, loans, publicly traded company, revenues
TUPELO — Renasant Corporation, for the fourth quarter of 2011, saw net income of $5.79 million, compared to $4.721 million for the fourth quarter of 2010. Basic and diluted earnings per share (EPS) were $0.23 for the fourth quarter of 2011 as compared to basic and diluted EPS of $0.19 for the fourth quarter of [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 18,2012
Tags: banking and finance, Banks, financial institutions, investing, investments, investors, public offering, publication, publicly traded company, shares, stocks
TUPELO — BancorpSouth Inc. has commenced an underwritten public offering of $100 million of its common stock. The company said it intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 15 percent of common shares sold pursuant to this transaction. All of the shares are being offered by the Tupelo-based [...] [...]
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — LendingTree.com has released data highlighting the average loan amount on residential real estate purchases for all 50 states and Washington D.C. for the year. Hawaii, by far, leads the nation with an average home loan amount of $677,299, followed by Washington, D.C., at $393,453, New Jersey at $344,240 and New York at [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 12,2012
Tags: banking and finance, Banks, disaster, disaster declaration, disaster recovery, drought, financial institutions, heat, loans, natural disaster, small businesses
BENTON COUNTY and MARSHALL COUNTY — The U.S. Small Business Administration’s economic injury disaster loans are available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private non-profit organizations of all sizes located in Benton and Marshall counties in Mississippi as a result of drought and excessive heat that occurred from [...] [...]
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