ServisFirst Bank to expand into Southwest Florida

ServisFirst Bank, a subsidiary of ServisFirst Bancshares (NASDAQ:SFBS), plans to expand into Southwest Florida with the hiring of five local bankers who will be located in Sarasota. Mario Bringas was named president for this newly formed Southwest Florida market in addition to Brent Dykstra, senior vice president and senior commercial banker, Ryan Riley, vice president … Read more

TD Bank names commercial market president for Central Florida

Peter Meyer has been named TD Bank market president—commercial for Central Florida. In his new role, Meyer will be responsible for the strategic growth and oversight of all commercial and small business banking activities in the metro Orlando and Tampa regions. He will be reporting to Nick Miceli, TD Bank’s regional president of Florida, and … Read more

Michael Nursey named head of middle market group for TD Bank, Florida

Michael Nursey has been promoted to head of the middle market group for Florida at TD Bank. In his new role, Nursey will lead TD Bank’s Middle Market strategy across the state, including commercial and industrial, business acquisition and public finance lending. Nursey will be based in Tampa. Nursey joined TD Bank in 2012 as … Read more

Monica Eaton-Cardone waged a war on chargebacks, and won

Monica Eaton-Cardone is many things — a wife, a mother, a businesswoman, a philanthropist – but one thing she is certainly most not, is easily intimidated. With a career spanning multiple industries and many companies, most of her own making, she most recently made a name for herself in Agile technologies, with a dispute mitigation … Read more

Stahl & Associates has acquired an Orlando insurance agency

Close-up of two business professionals in suits shaking hands during a meeting.

Stahl & Associates Insurance has reached an agreement to acquire Orlando-based Morse Insurance Agency. The addition of Morse Insurance Agency will expand Stahl & Associates’ footprint in Florida, a statement said. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition closed on December 1. “The insurance industry is changing and consolidating at a rapid pace. … Read more

CenterState Bank to acquire Birmingham company

CenterState Bank is acquiring National Commerce Corp.(Nasdaq: NCOM), a Birmingham, Alabama-based bank holding company. Under terms of the deal, CenterState Bank will exchange 1.65 of its shares for each National Commerce share outstanding. CenterState (Nasdaq: CSFL) is based in Davenport, Florida. The deal is valued at $850 million, according to MarketWatch.  

ONE LINERS Polk

► Joe McLeod, (left) Florida Public Relations Association Dick Pope/Polk County Chapter President-elect, received the Joe Curley Rising Leader Award at the annual FPRA Conference.

►Lakeland-based Publix Super Markets Charities announced it will donate $5 million to more than 240 nonprofit organizations, including Feeding America member food banks, which focuses on alleviating hunger across Publix’s operating area. ►GTE Financial opened a Community Financial Center located at 5320 U.S. Highway 98 North, Lakeland. ►After a national search, Florida Orthopaedic Institute hired … Read more

Five ways to protect yourself when using cryptocurrency

Adam Brouillet

In recent years, cryptocurrencies have gained traction worldwide as an increasingly common form of investment or electronic payment.  Because cryptocurrency operates in the cyber world, many of the best practices for protecting other online information also apply to cryptocurrency. You should not click on links you don’t recognize, be cognizant of any phishing schemes and … Read more