Banking & Finance

The merger of Palmetto Heritage Bancshares Inc. and First Citizens Bank & Trust Co. is expected to close in early November. Palmetto Heritage bank has a location in Mount Pleasant; First Citizens has 16 branches in the Lowcountry. … Read More

Ted O’Neill, CEO of Social Strata, had a vision of a social network that allows users to benefit from work they post — “a content economy,” he calls it — and he thought cryptocurrency and blockchain could be the key to making i … Read More

A study from SmartAsset ranks Berkeley County as the second-highest in the state for incoming investment. All three Lowcountry counties rank in the top 10 statewide, and Berkeley has ranked fourth or higher since 2015. … Read More

Many Fintech companies in the Lowcountry are growing their workforces and securing investments as they use software to automate financial services. … Read More

Charleston attorney John Kern, who was charged by the SEC in 2013 with aiding and abetting a financier with fraud, was suspended from practicing law for 18 months by the S.C. Supreme Court for professional misconduct. … Read More