Category: Industry News

Best Buy Founder Gets OK to Pursue Purchase

Best Buy and founder Richard Schulze announced they have reached an agreement under which Schulze will be permitted to form an investment group for the purpose of making a fully financed proposal to acquire the company.

EverBank Converts Tygris Cash Escrow to Stock Escrow

EverBank Financial said it converted $48.7 million of cash escrow from the acquisition of Tygris Commercial Finance to common stock escrow. The company said based on the performance of the Tygris portfolio, it expects the shares to be fully released in 2015.

Fed to Possibly Delay Dodd-Frank Stress Test Implementation

The Fed said it is considering delaying until September 2013 the implementation of company-run stress tests required by Dodd-Frank of bank holding companies, state member banks and savings and loan holding companies with between $10 billion and $50 billion in total consolidated assets.