Lake City coming downtown; other banks also add branches
Lake City, part of Warsaw-based Lakeland Financial Corp., will open an office this fall at 101 W. Ohio St.
Lake City, part of Warsaw-based Lakeland Financial Corp., will open an office this fall at 101 W. Ohio St.
In-branch transactions are declining as customers complete more business via online and mobile banking. Still, banks say physical offices remain important for a variety of reasons.
But heavyweights Chase Bank and PNC Bank between them still have more than a 40 percent market share, according to recently released federal data.
Unlike some other banks, Lake City did not enter this market though acquisition. David Findlay, CEO of the $3.8-billion-in-assets bank, said it doesn’t plan to buy banks to continue its growth.
Warsaw-based Lakeland Financial Corp., is a holding company for Lake City Bank, which has $3.7 billion in assets and 47 branches in northern and central Indiana.
Several out-of-town community banks have launched a full-court press on Indianapolis over the past decade and are seeing solid traction. Experts say they’re coming here because per-capita income and populations in their own back yards are growing more slowly and, in some cases, even declining.
Warsaw-based Lake City Bank appointed Bill Redman to lead its Indianapolis commercial banking team.
Now we know exactly how much of a fortune—or not—that larger, Indiana-based banks are generating from those ill-timed debit and ATM transactions.
Newer entrants are chasing market share with convenient hours, quick decisions and narrower niches of customers.
Work is finally under way at Fishers Marketplace, a long-awaited development at the northeast corner of 131st Street and State Road 37.
Hoosier banks from outside the Indianapolis area are piling into the market with branch locations, and with no let-up in sight.
Low-income women could receive loans in weeks.
Banks across Indiana are preparing for a deluge of new regulations that will cut into their bottom lines, make their businesses more complex and, in some cases, force them to consolidate.