To Bitcoin or NOT TO BITCOIN
Not much over the past couple of years has captured the imagination like Bitcoin has with the last few months being at an even...
Alpha Mode: Episode 1: Randy Dobbs
Upstate Business Journal is pleased to present a new, digital feature that will appear monthly at upstatebusinessjournal.com, in partnership with QLI International LLC (www.qli-international.com)...
United Community Bank’s lending services to grow through acquisition
Greenville-based United Community Bank Inc., the holding company for United Community Bank, announced on Jan. 8 it agreed to purchase NLFC Holdings Corp. for...
Cleaning up Your Christmas Mess
Spoiler alert – this is not an article about wrapping paper
By Robert DeHollander, CFP®, AIF®, CRPC®
Managing Principal, DeHollander & Janse Financial Group
It’s that time...
Upstate business community optimistic new law will fuel economic growth in...
Love it or hate it, tax reform has arrived.
On Dec. 22, President Donald Trump delivered on his promise to overhaul the nation’s Internal Revenue...
First Look: United Community Bank moves into former Erwin Penland building...
United Community Bank has nearly doubled its operations office space, moving over the past few weeks from 18,000 square feet in RiverPlace to the...
Playing the Long Game: Insights for investors from the rebuilding process...
When Sports Illustrated boldly claimed on the cover of their June 25, 2014, issue that the Houston Astros would win the 2017 World Series, it seemed to be a ludicrous prediction.
Making Sense of Tax Reform
Over the past several weeks, Republicans in the House and Senate have finally released tax reform bills.
Spartanburg’s Carolina Alliance Bank’s earnings fall during third quarter
The bank said the decrease was due to an increase in its provision for loan losses and decreased net interest income from net interest margin compression.
Carolina Alliance completes reorganization under new holding company
The Federal Reserve gave the Spartanburg bank approval to reorganize under the new company CAB Financial Corp.
First Community completes acquisition of Cornerstone Bancorp
The combined company has more than $1 billion in assets and $914 million in deposits and customer cash management accounts.
FINRA says Greenville’s Sandlapper Securities defrauded investors
FINRA alleges Sandlapper sold investments in saltwater disposal wells at excessive markups through a development company it controlled.
First Reliance to acquire Greenville-based Independence National Bank
The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of 2018.
VentureSouth expands into NC’s Triad region
The addition of VentureSouth Piedmont brings to 13 the number of angel investor groups in both Carolinas that fall under the VentureSouth umbrella.
Greenville-based FinTrust merges with Athen’s Broad Street
The new FinTrust has offices in Greenville, Anderson, Charleston, Athens, and Macon, Ga., and plans to add offices in Atlanta and Columbia.
