First Niagara Financial Group News

First Niagara Financial Group Inc. , one of the largest Buffalo-based banks, announced Tuesday that it will award $150,000 to 11 area non-profit organizations with mentoring programs.

Brian Wilcox, CFO and COO at Fortitech, a Schenectady-based company that makes mixes used by the food and beverage industry.

First Niagara Financial Group has committed over $2 million to the area surrounding its downtown Buffalo headquarters in the Larkin at Exchange Building.

First Niagara Financial Group said Wednesday that it will donate $1.5 million toward streetscape improvements in the neighborhoods around its new downtown Buffalo headquarters and help fund a program to support remodeling and renovation efforts.

New York Community Bancorp is the big surprise this week for Jim Cramer -- so he announced during his "Stop Trading" segment on CNBC.

As global banks including Bank of America and Citigroup received government lifelines, First Niagara Financial in upstate New York almost doubled in size with two acquisitions.

November 28, 2009, 6:51 AM / First Niagara Financial Group, a local thrift holding company that has been making several highly visible changes lately, is seeking to make another major adjustment that, it says, will cause customers and employees to see no difference.

First Niagara Financial Group announced Friday it has applied to convert to a bank-holding company status.

The nation's biggest banks may be getting their financial footing, but as 2009 comes to a close the bad news mounts for many regional and community banks.

While most businesses have seen the economy as troublesome, First Niagara Financial Group sees it as an opportunity to expand.

Harleysville National Corp. filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2009-09-30. Harleysville National Corporation is a bank holding company with 4 principal subsidiaries: Harleysville National Bank and Trust Company, Citizens National Bank of Lansford, Summit Hill Trust Company, and Security National Bank.

First Niagara Financial Group Inc. filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2009-09-30. First Niagara Financial Group Inc.

Stocks discussed on the lightning round s ession of Jim Cramer's Mad Money TV Program, Thursday November 5. Bullish Calls: Inergy : "I like that one.

Parker, who brings more than four years of insurance experience to this position, joins First Niagara from EBS-RMSCO, Inc.

Here's what Jim Cramer had to say about some of the stocks that callers offered up during the "Mad Money Lightning Round" Thursday evening.

The markets have witnessed the damage from banks with significant exposure to residential and consumer loan markets.

October 27, 2009, 7:12 AM / A Philadelphia-area bank that First Niagara Financial Group is acquiring had grown increasingly desperate for a capital infusion or buyout in July when the Pendletonbased savings bank pounced with an offer it couldn't refuse.

BUYINS.NET / www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring the performance of all stocks with earnings being released in the coming weeks and determining how the stocks have performed before their last 12 quarterly, 6 quarterly and October/November earnings reports.

Which insiders are selling and buying chunks of stocks? Below are lists of the top 10 open-market insider purchases and sales filed at the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday as ranked by dollar value.

In the Lightning Round, Cramer was bullish on Advanced Micro Devices , Huntington Bancshares , First Niagara Financial , Allergan and Honeywell .