{"id":5442,"date":"2009-10-30T13:34:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=5442"},"modified":"2009-10-30T13:34:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T17:34:10","slug":"newcomers-to-give-florida-banks-a-run-for-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2009\/10\/newcomers-to-give-florida-banks-a-run-for-the-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcomers to give Florida banks a run for the money."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New bank names are popping up around South Florida. As the strong replace the weak and the economy stabilizes, the changes should help ease the credit crunch.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5444\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/national-city-bank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5444\" title=\"national-city-bank\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/national-city-bank.jpg\" alt=\"National City Bank\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">National City Bank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A series of bank takeovers, spurred by the recent financial upheaval, has brought several new banking giants to the state &#8212; already one of the most competitive landscapes in the nation for banking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe beauty is we have stronger banks in Florida than before when the banks &#8212; like WaMu and Colonial &#8212; were hobbled by bad real estate [loans],\u201c said <strong>William Hardin<\/strong>, a professor of finance and real estate at Florida International University.<\/p>\n<p>The newcomers all insist that despite Florida&#8217;s dicey economy, they are lending and are willing to lend in the state &#8212; provided they find credit-worthy customers.<\/p>\n<p>Read: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/pdf\/PrintOct2009\/newcomers-to-give-florida-banks-run-for-the-money.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Newcomers to give Florida banks a run for the money<\/a>,\u201c an article from the MiamiHerald.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New bank names are popping up around South Florida. As the strong replace the weak and the economy stabilizes, the changes should help ease the credit crunch. A series of bank takeovers, spurred by the recent financial upheaval, has brought several new banking giants to the state &#8212; already one of the most competitive landscapes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[619,694,697,1838,2224,3806],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}