Year one of Truist Financial Corp. was quiet, recognition that it was better to delay the largest integration in financial services industry history rather than stick with an August 2021 deadline made implausible by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Truist debuted on Dec. 7, 2019, the result of BB&T s $33.5 billion purchase of SunTrust Banks Inc.
A year later, the bank has $499 billion in total assets as of Sept. 30, making it the sixth largest bank in the country.
The bank has completed its first year calling Charlotte its home, a key element of negotiations to secure the marriage of Winston-Salem-based BB&T and Atlanta-based SunTrust.
murray. thank you, and joining miss is andy parrish, michele bachmann s former chief of staff. thank you for joining us. we wanted to get to some of the charges that former staff members, including yourself, have made on this subject. we should point out that michele bachmann s attorney has said she s done nothing wrong and she s cooperating with the office of congressional ethics. what do you know about whether the fec or the office of congressional ethics, a preliminary group, what down about what actually happened in this campaign? thanks for having me on, andrea. ultimate down in iowa. i had move to work the straw poll for her. i ll be honest, from what i ve seen and heard, i don t think there s anything investigating the congresswoman. from what i know, i really don t think there is. i think they re seeking out a couple payments that were made apparently to a fund-raiser, and also talking about some payments made to an iowa state senator.
it has great capacity, enormous intelligence capacity. so i think that while israel may get involved, and certainly is in the zone of concern, it s managed its strategic assets very well. what is the likelihood of a diplomatic conference even taking place? it s very unlikely, though a lot of efforts are trying john kerry has staked a lot. andy wendy sherman traveling to gen northeast to to meet with her russian counterparts, a top state officials, to try to bring this conference together. we understand the syrian government is willing to go. president assad has said he s willing to go, but you have an issue with the syrian opposition. they have their own preconditions. they ve been holding this conference in istanbul for dales on end trying to put a platform program for their vision, for the future of syria. and the russians insisting on
we had obama on the ballot last electionic sole, but i m confident she would have won again. the district is that republican. i think in her mind she just decided i ve served my country, i ve done what i feel is best and done the best job i can, and now it s time for somebody else to do the job. andy parrish, thanks for joining us. thanks for having me, andrea. now to new jersey, chris christie is standing by the rutgers leadership despite the latest controversy. herman has been accused of mistreating her volley ball team at the university of tennessee. the new jersey governor said he has spoken with the rutgers president and will not micromanage those hiring decisions. i don t know julie herman, i ve never met julie herman, i ve never spoken to her. i wasn t involved in the recruiting, vetting or anything else, as i should not be. i m the governor of new jersey,