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Capital Bank CEO Eugene Taylor took a three-year break from acquisitions until agreeing to buy CommunityOne earlier this year. Taylor hopes the deal provides evidence that his team is a buyer not a seller in the year ahead.
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Popular with employees: At each team meeting, an employee who "hits it out of the park" receives a special baseball. The recipient signs the ball and passes it on to another employee at the next meeting.
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The Sunshine State is once again outgrowing the rest of the country and some of its community banks are eager to become the states next flagship. Florida has changed a lot since the old Barnett Bank held that title, and so has banking. But now its thriving homegrown contenders aim to reshape the fragmented banking landscape, which is dominated by out-of-state rivals.
May 27
Prime Meridian Holding in Tallahassee, Fla., has tapped a board member to serve as its new chief financial officer.
The $245 million-asset company named Randy Guemple CFO, effective Jan. 1. Guemple will succeed Kathleen Jones, who will retire as CFO of both Prime Meridian Bank and the holding company.
Guemple, 64, has been a director of Prime Meridian Bank since 2007 and a holding company director since 2010. Guemple is a former chief operating officer and chief financial officer of First Bank of Florida in West Palm Beach.
Jones will remain a director of Prime Meridian Bank and its holding company. Jones, who was 61 in March at the time of Prime Meridian's annual report, has worked for the bank since 2010. She previously worked for SunTrust Banks.
