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Hudson City Bancorp continues to reorganize its management team and board following the death of chairman and chief executive officer Ronald Hermance on Sept. 11.
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Ron Hermance, chairman and chief executive of Hudson City Bancorp in Paramus, N.J., has died.
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BB&T is back the business of buying banks for the first time in several years, even though most of its peers think regulators are opposed to big-bank M&A. BB&T's investments in compliance improvements make its executives feel confident about getting new deals done, CEO Kelly King says.
September 8
Hudson City Bancorp in Paramus, N.J., has
The $38 billion-asset company said in a press release late Thursday that an unnamed financial institution exercised a repurchase right for the pool of loans. Hudson City received the entire unpaid balance of the loans, plus unpaid interest, though a purchase price was not disclosed.
Hudson City expects to charge $2.9 million to its loan-loss reserve to cover its writeoff of the loans. The company also said its loan-loss provision may decline, due to a "small release of our loan-loss reserves, assuming we experience no other changes to credit quality during the quarter."
The announcement comes ahead of the companys third-quarter earnings release. It also comes amid uncertainty surrounding
