First Farmers and Merchants National Bank News

First Merchants Corporation Announces Strong First Quarter 2013 Earnings
Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:24:00 -0700
First Merchants Corporation has reported first quarter 2013 earnings per share of $.38 compared to core earnings of $.25 during the same period in 2012. Reported earnings for the first quarter of 2012 totaled $.46 as the Corporation recorded a gain on its FDIC purchase of SCB Bank in Shelbyville, Indiana of $.21 per share.

Nextier Bank to merge with Farmers and Merchants Bank
Tue, 07 May 2013 08:00:05 -0700
Newly formed bank will be headquartered in Butler

NexTier, Farmers & Merchants to merge, with $1B combined assets, by 1stQ 2014
Tue, 07 May 2013 07:45:35 -0700
By Thomas Olson, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review NexTier Bank of Butler and Farmers & Merchants Bank in Kittanning said on Tuesday that they plan to combine into a 24-branch bank with $1 ...

Nashville People in Business
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:54:49 -0700
Nashville People in Business: Awards, achievements and promotions

Philippine poll body imposes money ban
Tue, 07 May 2013 21:00:03 -0700
Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) - Surprise!

Comelec orders P100K limit to cash withdrawals
Tue, 07 May 2013 05:41:52 -0700
MANILA (UPDATED) - After its unprecedented expansion of the 2-day election liquor ban to 5 days in the name of an orderly election, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) now imposes a "money ban" for the first time to prevent vote buying.

Bangko Sentral refuses to comply with Comelec order limiting cash withdrawals
Tue, 07 May 2013 08:52:19 -0700
(Updated 5:31 a.m., 5/8/13) The Comelec on Tuesday shocked the banking and commercial industries, not to mention ill-intentioned political candidates, by ordering a limit on cash withdrawals to curb vote buying in the last days before election day on May 13. But the Bangko Sentral is resisting, asserting that it would "disrupt normal business and commercial transactions in the Philippines." The ...

Comelec puts caps on cash withdrawals to curb vote-buying
Tue, 07 May 2013 08:02:25 -0700
By Mikha Flores, VERA Files The Commission on Elections, in an unprecedented and controversial decision, has imposed caps on cash withdrawals and prohibited the transport of huge amounts of money from May 8 to Election Day in a bid to … Continue reading ?

Transport infrastructure building spurs business
Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:26:36 -0700
Farmer Rene Ravalo loads coconuts onto a truck in the Philippines for the 30-minute trip to market on a road built last year. It previously took half a day for a water buffalo to inch the goods down a mountain track.

Printed letters, May 5, 2013
Fri, 03 May 2013 14:51:03 -0700
Both political parties learned from the last national election that it is time to allow hard-working immigrants a fair chance at one day becoming citizens.

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