On September 18, 2009
Recent Bank Share-Sales May Set Off Industry-Wide Sell-off
My BNET Finance colleague Alain Sherter highlights an interesting phenomenon in a post here yesterday: Beaten down regional banks badly need capital, and they think know where to find it: the public market. Zions, a $53 billion-asset banking company based in Utah, on Thursday affirmed its plan to raise $250 million in a secondary stock offering. Another large regional player, Synovus, earlier this week announced it would seek to raise up $350 million in a stock offering, part of a broader plan by the Georgia company to add $500 million in capital. Also this month, Ohio’s Huntington Bancshares said it plans a stock offering expected to raise up to $150 million. This is something that I predicted would become a…
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