Academy Bank: Academy Bank grows as owner combines properties

The owner of Colorado Springs-based Academy Bank, which operates 31 Colorado locations, has folded other banks it owns into Academy, more than doubling its size. The owner, Kansas City-based holding company Dickinson Financial Corp., has merged Phoenix-based SunBank NA and Tampa, Florida-based Southern Commerce Bank NA into its Academy Bank NA. Dickinson also transferred 25 branches of its Armed Forces Bank NA that are located in Wal-Mart Stores locations to Academy Bank. The company said the transfer...