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Sunflower Bank CEO gets arrested — again
Sunflower Bank CEO Mollie Hale Carter faces two misdemeanors after getting arrested in New Mexico. The police report states that an officer witnessed Carter texting and looking down while she was...
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GM Fairfax employees will get record profit-sharing checks
The record $9.4 billion profit at General Motors Co. in 2016 means its hourly workers will receive record profit-sharing checks worth $12,000 apiece. For the 3,500 employees at the General Motors...
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Financial Engines: Ex-employees stole customers for their new business
Financial Engines Inc. is suing two former senior vice presidents for breach of contract and misappropriation of trade secrets, accusing them of stealing company-owned information and clients to start...
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Professional Services: H&R Block’s aim in IBM Watson deal? It’s elementary
Impressed by the work IBM Watson was doing for The University of Kansas Cancer Center, H&R Block Inc. CEO Bill Cobb put in a phone call to see whether Watson’s technology could help revolutionize...
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Construction attorney helps Spencer Fane expand into Phoenix
Spencer Fane LLP added real estate and construction attorney Randy Jefferies as a partner, enabling the Kansas City-based firm to expand into the Phoenix market. Jefferies focuses his practice on...
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UMB economist: Are we headed for more bubbles?
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan once said that long-term stability combined with low inflation will result in a bubble. If that's true, we've been experiencing those conditions for...
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Cover Story: For Leawood fintech startup, business is bloooming
In four years, Blooom Inc. has gone from idea to entrepreneurial contest darling to real-life enterprise. Now, it’s ready to really start growing. The Leawood company, founded to help smaller investors...
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Want affordable NCAA March Madness tickets? Sprint Center is for you
The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is coming to Sprint Center for the regional round March 23-25, and the tickets on the secondary market have the second-lowest average price. According to Vivid...
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Renewal keeps Chiefs longest sponsor on team until 2020
The Kansas City Chiefs signed a renewal agreement with the team's longest-running sponsor, ensuring the relationship continues for three more years. The company is Coca-Cola, which first became a...
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Early return on merger of two KC-area mutual banks: $25M lawsuit
First Federal Bank of Kansas City is getting sued by members of the former Inter-State Federal Savings and Loan for not distributing excess capital reserves as dividends before the two entities merged...
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Local bank harvests ag exec from Bank of America
Citizens Bank & Trust Co., which recently moved its headquarters to Kansas City after 127 years in Chillicothe, Mo., is trying to increase its share of the area agricultural banking market, adding...
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Life after Inergy: Sherman finds 'a lot of fun' owning sports teams
After selling a majority stake in Kansas City-based Inergy LP, John Sherman had the time and resources to do just about anything. But few thought he'd buy a Major League Baseball team. But that's just...
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Royals sign four-year McDouble Play sponsorship
Local McDonald's restaurant owners have signed a four-year sponsorship deal with the Kansas City Royals that will result in $1 McDouble cheeseburgers the day after the team turns a double play. Local...
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Playing with fire: Man pleads guilty to embezzling from churches
David Townley of Raytown pleaded guilty to stealing more than $86,000 from two local churches and evading taxes. Townley admitted to embezzling while working or volunteering at Nativity of Mary church...
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Life after Inergy: Sherman steps up his philanthropy in KC
As a sign of his commitment to the Kansas City area, John Sherman pointed through the glass doors of his office in the Barney Building in Mission at an office renovation project underway across the...
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On the Money: With time and money, Inergy’s Sherman turns to his passions
It’s been three-plus years since John Sherman led Kansas City-based Inergy LP as it sold a majority interest to Crestwood Holdings, and although he recently bought an ownership stake in the Cleveland...
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Morrill & Janes parent makes biggest bank acquisition to date
Heartland Financial USA Inc., the parent company of Merriam-based Morrill & Janes Bank & Trust Co., has been one of the nation's most-active bank acquirers over the past few years and just...
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Goppert Financial will merge with its sister bank
Goppert Financial Corp. plans to merge two of its banks together to save on regulatory compliance costs. The Pleasant Hill Bank will be merged into Goppert Financial Bank, to create a $160.5...
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KCK roofer pleads guilty to illegally employing aliens
Tommy Frank Keaton of Shawnee, co-owner of Century Roofing in Kansas City, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of providing employment, transportation and housing for undocumented workers from Mexico....
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A new KC bank brand will be fully emerged after the weekend
Bank of Kansas City and Missouri Bank & Trust Co. no longer will exist after Presidents Day, as the companies complete the integration of their systems and the switch to the new Mobank brand. The...
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