Huntington to close Michigan call center
COLUMBUS — Huntington Bancshares plans to close a call center in Michigan in a move that will eliminate 129 jobs. Most of the positions are in customer service and wealth management.
The decision to close the office in Holland, Michigan, stems from last year’s acquisition of Akronbased FirstMerit, the bank has told the state of Michigan.
The merger of workforces means some jobs were deemed unnecessary. Also, the lease on the office is expiring.
The office will close July 14. 2015, he was accused of taking money from individuals saying that he would invest it, also telling clients a portion was guaranteed. Instead, he used it for personal expenses, to repay previous investors and to cover his own stock-trading losses, according to the Ohio Division of Securities.
Neither Mathew nor his business held a securities license with the division.
Mathew pleaded guilty last week in Muskingum County Common Pleas Court to 36 felonies. He is scheduled to be sentenced July 10 and faces up to 10 years in prison. Fargo builder sentiment index released Monday rose to 70 this month. That’s up two points from 68 in April.
Readings above 50 indicate more builders view sales conditions as good rather than poor. The index has been above 60 since September. It hit 71 in March, the highest level since June 2005 during the height of the last housing boom.
The May index exceeded analyst predictions, which called for the reading to hold steady from last month, according to FactSet. unit spun off from Google, even though the judge refused to order a halt to Uber’s autonomous car research as Waymo had requested, the experts said.
Waymo showed “compelling evidence” that a former Waymo engineer named Anthony Levandowski downloaded thousands of confidential files before leaving the company, the order said. Levandowski set up his own firms, which then were sold to Uber for $680 million. Evidence showed that Levandowski and Uber planned the acquisitions before Levandowski left Waymo, Alsup’s order said.
“He clearly believes that Levandowski is guilty as sin and that Uber hired him, knowing this full well,” said John Coffee, a Columbia University law professor who specializes in white-collar crime and corporate governance. “He is ruling that some of this information is stolen (or “misappropriated”) and in the long run that will likely have a devastating impact on Uber.”