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MONTEBELLO, N.Y. and LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Aug. 16, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sterling Bancorp (NYSE:STL), the holding company for Sterling National Bank and Astoria Financial Corporation (NYSE:AF), the holding company for Astoria Bank, announced today that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“ OCC ”) has approved the merger of Astoria with and into Sterling (the “ Merger ”).  The transaction, which was announced March 7, 2017 and approved by the shareholders of Astoria Financial Corporation and Sterling Bancorp on June 13, 2017, remains subject to other customary closing conditions , including the approval of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System .  Assuming such conditions are satisfied, Sterling Bancorp and Astoria Financial Corporation expect to complete the Merger early in the fourth calendar quarter of 2017. About Sterling Bancorp Sterling Bancorp , whose principal subsidiary is Sterling National Bank , specializes in the delivery of service and solut...

The city of Tampa is on the cusp of a total makeover. With billions of dollars in investment and dozens of new apartment, condo, office and cultural buildings in the pipeline, the city's skyline and surrounding communities are poised to look a whole lot different than what it does today. But dreaming up the future of Tampa doesn't come without its challenges. For all the promises of a new urban core filled with hotels, parks, food halls and stores, there are also potential pitfalls. The Tampa Bay Times identified the five key obstacles that stand in the way of some of the biggest projects proposed in Hillsborough County . Many of these challenges are ones local politicians and business leaders have been fighting for years to find a solution. Others are fairly new territory, but still pose a real threat to the region's continued growth. [LOREN ELLIOTT | Times] A construction site is seen just north of Amalie Arena in downtown Tampa , Fla., on Monday, May 1, 2017. Curr...

One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency . Icahn is one of the richest men on Wall Street, and he has thrived, in no small measure, because of a capacity to intimidate. A Texas- based oil refiner in which he had a major stake was losing money because of an obscure environmental rule that Icahn regarded as unduly onerous. Icahn is a voluble critic of any government regulation that constrains his companies. So he wanted to speak with the person in charge of enforcing the policy: a senior official at the E.P.A. named Janet McCabe . Icahn works from a suite of offices, atop the General Motors Building , in midtown, that are decorated in the oak-and-leather fashion of a tycoon’s lair in a nineteen-eighties film. During that decade, Icahn made his reputation as one of the original corporate raiders , pioneering the art of the hostile takeover and establishing himself as a human juggernaut—a pugnacious deal machine ...