Longtime Tampa contractor American Electrical Services has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. ...more

September 24, 2009

Federal banking regulators have hit the small First Commercial Bank of Tampa Bay, 4600 W. Kennedy Blvd., with a cease-and-desist order demanding, among other things, the bank improve its finances. ...more

June 28, 2009

The number of Florida banks at risk of folding has more than doubled in the last few months, according to a Coral Gables rating agency. ...more

March 27, 2009

The number of Florida banks at risk of folding has more than doubled in the past few months, according to a Coral Gables rating agency. ...more

March 18, 2009

The number of Florida banks at risk of folding has more than doubled in the last few months, according to a Coral Gables rating agency. ...more

March 17, 2009

An accountant who submitted false statements to a bank so he could get loans for his business and his clients was sentenced today in federal court to one year and a day in prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. ...more

February 25, 2009

A task force charged with reviving Hillsborough County's economy needs to be monitored for conflicts of interest and to ensure it doesn't undermine local growth-management rules, two county commissioners said Wednesday. ...more

February 19, 2009

The city received one proposal to restore the historic Guida House at Macfarlane Park. It includes programming for children and makes the building accessible for community programs. ...more

February 18, 2009

Bank of Tampa patriarch Jerry Divers began his career in the early 1960s with bankers who survived the Great Depression, when the city lost 24 of its 28 banks. ...more

February 10, 2009

So when the president of the Tampa Banking Co. adds to the refrain that today's banking conditions are the worst since the Depression, industry colleagues are apt to pay attention, as did competitors and others at a gathering of the Tampa Chapter of the Exchange Club this afternoon. Divers shared his thoughts about the economic plight affecting banks and the nation, including a warning that 2009 looks gloomy for Florida banking. ...more

February 9, 2009