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SunTrust, BB&T launch Truist Purple visual identity and logo
In a highly-anticipated Monday morning release, Truist – the entity created by the merger of SunTrust and BB&T – unveiled its logo, symbolizing the concept of a true merger of equals.
For example, the color is a deep purple, the merging BB&T’s burgundy with SunTrust’s blue.
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New Truist CEO: Atlanta is bank’s most important market
While Atlanta did not land the headquarters of the newly-formed Truist, it will be the bank’s most important market in its footprint.
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SunTrust-BB&T pick Truist as name for combined $66B bank
And the new name is …Truist.The top executives of Winston-Salem, N.C.-based BB&T Corp. and Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks Inc. announced Wednesday that the name of their new merged bank will be Truist – a name picked to reflect the heritage of both financial institutions.
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SunTrust CFO Allison Dukes to leave bank after BB&T merger
One of the key executives at SunTrust Bank – Allison Dukes – has chosen to not join the new bank formed by the merger of SunTrust and BB&T.Dukes is the chief financial officer of SunTrust and she already had been identified as one of the SunTrust executives who would be part of the executive management team of the merged bank, which will be based in Charlotte, N.C.
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SunTrust gives $5M for Atlanta’s Westside revitalization effort
The SunTrust Foundation presented the Westside Future Fund a $5 million grant Monday morning to support more affordable housing and provide entrepreneurial and small business opportunities for community residents.SunTrust CEO Bill Rogers said the grant, the single largest gift in the foundation’s history, had been in works before the bank announced its merger with BB&T.
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Atlanta loses a key Fortune 500 HQ with SunTrust merger
This one really hurts.
Losing the corporate headquarters of SunTrust hit Atlanta below the belt – just as the city was basking in the light of hosting the successful Super Bowl LIII.
After all, one goal in Atlanta’s hosting of the Super Bowl was to promote the city’s brand as a great place for business.
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Bill Rogers, David Ratcliffe talk SunTrust deal: ‘Sadness is more than overshadowed and compensated by the excitement’
Atlanta will be losing the headquarters of its largest bank with the announced merger of SunTrust Bank and BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT).
But the deal is so compelling that it was worth losing the headquarters, according to two key leaders of the Atlanta bank.
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Compassion for Those Working Paycheck to Paycheck in America
I keep saying that 70% of Americans live from paycheck to paycheck, and 64% of Americans (not poor people) don’t have $500 in times of an unplanned financial event in their lives, but few things made these stats and facts more real and immediate than the government shutdown. About 800,000 federal government employees — many […]
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Column: AT&T enlisting entire Atlanta workforce to help Westside
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Jan. 18, 2019
The entire Atlanta workforce of AT&T – 15,000 people – will be part of an innovative “Believe Atlanta” campaign to help revitalize the Westside of the city.
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Column: European trip moves Atlanta’s quest to host Nobel Laureate summit forward
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Sept. 14, 2018
Atlanta’s quest to hold the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in 2020 took a major step forward during a recent visit by an Atlanta delegation to Oslo, Stockholm and Paris to meet with Nobel leaders.
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Column: Atlanta companies mark milestones, look to future at annual meetings
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on April 27, 2018
Two legacy Atlanta companies will be marking similar milestones this year.
Genuine Parts Co. and Rollins Inc. are both celebrating 50 years on the New York Stock Exchange. GPC will ring the closing bell on June 5, and Rollins will ring the closing bell on Aug. 10.
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New SunTrust Bank branch latest sign of strength of Upper West Side
The grand opening Friday of a SunTrust Bank branch in a new shopping center underscores the strength of the development trend in the outer reaches of Atlanta’s Upper West Side region – near the Chattahoochee River.
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Closing the Financial Gap: Georgia State’s Innovative SunTrust Student Financial Management Center
Thanks to an innovative student financial center, Georgia State is closing financial gaps that can mean the difference between graduation and dropping out of college. By Jeremy Craig, Georgia State University For Kennedy Oglesby, $2,300 could have stood in the way of graduating this fall. That amount of money might seem small compared to tuition […]
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Partnership with Purpose
By John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Operation HOPE, Inc. I am pleased to join Bill Rogers, chairman and CEO of SunTrust Bank for a conversation around The Memo: Five Rules for Your Economic Liberation (Berrett-Koehler, 2017) at SunTrust’s onUp on Tour Atlanta headquarters stop tomorrow at SunTrust Plaza. The event provides the opportunity to highlight the valued partnership between […]
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Financial literacy: ‘It’s not about how big your paycheck is; it’s what you do with it’
David Malone says he learned more than he ever expected from the SunTrust financial literacy program offered by his employer. The program might even prove to be life changing, depending on how he and his wife decide to implement its lessons.
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SunTrust Park includes entertainment center to help fans control their finances
Almost overlooked in the opening day reports from SunTrust Park is an interactive entertainment center that’s intended to help visitors improve their control of their money.
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SunTrust’s free program on financial well-being tops 1 million participants in a year
More than 1 million individuals have participated the free financial well-being program sponsored by SunTrust Banks. SunTrust has spread its message through partnerships with organizations including United Way and Operation Hope.
