Latest Bbt Headlines
All the headlines from our Bbt Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Business Moves
Jul 1 2019 // East Paquin Insurance Agency, OceanPoint Insurance Agency Paquin Insurance Agency has joined OceanPoint Insurance Agency’s organization in Rhode Island. Paquin Agency Principal Rick Paquin has accepted a position as...
BB&T, SunTrust to Rebrand as Truist; North Carolina Headquarters Announced
Jun 14 2019 // BB&T Corporation and SunTrust Banks, Inc., will rebrand as Truist after the two companies combine through their planned merger, announced earlier this year. According to the companies, Truist will be the sixth-largest...
Business Moves
Feb 18 2019 // National AmWINS, The Flood Agency Specialty insurance broker AmWINS Group has agreed to acquire The Flood Insurance Agency, a Florida-based managing general agency that specializes in private market flood insurance. The...
SunTrust and BB&T Banks to Merge
Feb 7 2019 // SunTrust Banks and BB&T Corp. announced that both companies’ boards of directors have unanimously agreed to merge the two financial services firms in an all-stock merger of equals valued at approximately $66...
Big deals
Feb 4 2019 // Marsh/JLT, Brown & Brown/Hays Topped 2018 P/C Agency Mergers A handful of big deals dominated the very busy property/casualty insurance agency and broker merger news cycle for 2018. Based on Insurance Journal...
BB&T Insurance to Acquire Regions Insurance Group
Apr 6 2018 // BB&T Insurance Holdings, which is owned by financial services firm BB&T Corp., has agreed to acquire another bank-owned insurance broker, Regions Insurance Group, from Regions Financial Corp. No terms were...
People
Dec 18 2017 // INSUREtrust has promoted Will Tschetter to Professional Lines broker. In his new role, Tschetter will specifically focus on new broker production and will be brokering cyber insurance, technology errors and omissions...
BB&T-Oswald Trippe Adds 2 Commercial Lines Producers to Florida Team
Oct 20 2017 // BB&T- Oswald Trippe and Company has expanded its Southeast Florida team with the addition of two new associates as commercial lines producers to assist business clients in the greater Southeast Florida area. Kelly...
BB&T Completes Acquisition of Swett & Crawford
Apr 4 2016 // BB&T Corp. said it has completed its acquisition of wholesale insurance and reinsurance broker CGSC North America (Swett & Crawford) from Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford. North Carolina-based BB&T said it...
BB&T to Buy Swett & Crawford for $500M
Feb 24 2016 // Three months after it announced it would sell its North American operations, U.K.-based wholesale and reinsurance broker Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC) has a buyer. North Carolina-based BB&T Corp. has agreed to...
People – South Central
Jan 11 2016 // John Pollock, BB&T Insurance Services Florida regional insurance president, has been promoted to a multi-state regional leadership position. According to the company, BB&T Insurance Services is experiencing...
BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Co. Adds Associates to Florida Offices
Dec 16 2015 // BB&T- Oswald Trippe and Company has expanded with new associates hires to its Florida offices. . Lisa Feanny has been named a personal lines sales associate for Miami. Feanny has 25 years of experience in the insurance...
BB&T Insurance Services Promotes Pollock to Regional Leadership Position
Dec 1 2015 // John Pollock, BB&T Insurance Services Florida regional insurance president, has been promoted to a multi-state regional leadership position. According to the company, BB&T Insurance Services is experiencing...
CRC Insurance Services to Acquire Connecticut Underwriters
Oct 6 2015 // CRC Insurance Services Inc., a wholesale insurance unit of BB&T Corporation’s principal subsidiary Branch Banking and Trust Company, announced an agreement to acquire Connecticut Underwriters Inc. in Middletown,...
BB&T Buys 16.9% Stake in London-Based Miller; Willis to Keep Majority Interest
Oct 2 2015 // BB&T IHC International Ltd. has acquired a 16.9 percent interest in Miller Insurance Services LLP, the London-based specialist wholesale insurance broking firm. BB&T, which owns the world’s sixth largest...
BB&T Insurance CEO Reece to Retire; Howard Named Successor
Sep 23 2015 // Winston-Salem, N.C.-based BB&T said that H. Wade Reece, chairman and CEO of BB&T Insurance Holdings Inc., will retire at the end of the year. Reece will complete a 37-year career with BB&T in which BB&T...
Rhodes Joins BB&T Insurances Services in Southern California
Sep 14 2015 // Anaheim, Calif.-based BB&T Insurance Services of Orange County has named Scott Rhodes senior vice president and chief operating officer. The 26-year industry veteran will manage day-to-day operations and work with the...
Florida’s Brightway Establishes $20M Financing Agreement With SunTrust Bank
Aug 18 2015 // The Jacksonville, Florida-based Brightway Insurance said it received $20 million in bank financing through SunTrust Bank to help fund its national expansion. Brightway is a national property/casualty insurance agency...
People – Southeast
Apr 20 2015 // Shawn Kay has joined the staff at BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Company as a customer service representative in the Miami office working with personal insurance clients. Kay joined BB&T-OTC after completing his training...
BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Co. Hires DVIC Graduate for Miami Office
Apr 13 2015 // Shawn Kay has joined the staff at BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Company as a customer service representative in the Miami office working with personal insurance clients. Kay joined BB&T-OTC after completing his training...
