First Niagara Bank representatives Friday presented a $40,000 check to St. Ann’s Community at its newly built Wegman Transitional Care Center, 1500 Portland Ave. The gift supports St. Ann’s $70 million effort to modernize its buildings and realign the delivery ...

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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has approved an application by Five Star Bank, an affiliate of Warsaw-based Financial Institutions Inc., to purchase four First Niagara Bank, N.A. retail branch locations in Batavia, Brockport, Medina and Waterloo. The closing ...

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BUFFALO (AP) — First Niagara Bank expects its $1 billion purchase of HSBC Bank’s upstate New York branches to be completed by mid-May and is making plans to consolidate 35 locations where First Niagara and HSBC have buildings within a ...

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BUFFALO — First Niagara Bank has announced agreements to sell 27 branches to two upstate New York buyers as it moves ahead with its acquisition of HSBC Bank’s regional retail network. The Buffalo-based bank announced the separate sale of 37 ...

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BUFFALO — First Niagara Financial Group Inc. said Thursday that its profit rose 25 percent in the third quarter as loan quality continued to improve, its commercial lending business picked up and deposits grew. The Buffalo-based bank posted net income ...

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What does First Niagara Financial Group’s acquisition of 195 branches of HSBC Bank USA across upstate New York and Connecticut mean for the regional banking industry? More competition, according to one local expert, and more opportunities for those who can capitalize on them, said another.

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Geneva resident Kelly Mittiga, senior vice president of retail banking at First Niagara Bank, has been appointed to the Ontario County Industrial Development Agency’s board of directors for a six-year term. Mittiga oversees retail programs across the bank’s 255 branches.

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