Bankers Use Trump Rally to Cash Out

Executives, directors at nearly 100 community banks and regional players netted $1 billion in stock sales since election

 Insiders at publicly traded commercial banks with a market value greater than $1 billion, but excluding the largest national banks, sold about $1.4 billion in their company stock between the election and the end of March

.. Private-equity investors with board seats also sold. Four of them accounted for more than $310 million of the sales, or about 22% of the total, since the election. These same investors sold $46 million in 2016 before the election.