Bank shot: CEO returns to his roots with strategic acquisition

A Tampa investment and financial services firm, in going well outside its realm to buy a bank, aims to beat back a throng of competitors. Integration is just one of many what’s-next challenges.

By Brian Hartz
| 6:00 a.m. April 19, 2019
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Mark Wemple. Brian Katz has aggressively expanded his Pineywoods brand of financial services firms with the acquisition of Camp Grove State Bank, a small bank in rural Illinois.

Finance

When your holding company includes firms that specialize in property sales, management and investment; title and escrow services; and insurance policies, there’s just one thing left to do: buy a bank.