St. Petersburg-based financial services giant Raymond James Financial said Thursday that it will become a broad-line commercial bank, a move that should position it to compete more aggressively for new customers and help it become more of a recognized financial brand. ...more

September 26, 2008

When Bill Crews, the chairman of Wauchula State Bank, and Tom Trevino, a broker with Merrill Lynch's brokerage in Sebring, spoke to the Kiwanis in Hardee County on Tuesday, they faced a deluge of questions. ...more

September 18, 2008

With deep losses and a credit crunch crippling Wall Street's biggest names in finance, now is the perfect time to buy a bank, says John H. Sykes. ...more

September 6, 2008

A local investor group led by John H. Sykes, founder and former chairman of Sykes Enterprises Inc., announced a deal to purchase a controlling stake in the Tampa-based national stock brokerage company Gunn Allen Financial Inc. ...more

September 5, 2008