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First Citizens, Orangeburg bank to merge |
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
COLUMBIA -- An economy that is hammering bank stocks and choking growth. is leading banks to buy competitors to beef up their size and increase their efficiency. On Thursday, Columbia-based First Citizens bank agreed to buy a small bank with branches from Orangeburg to Northeast Richland for $94 million, increasing the family-owned bank’s share of the area market.
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