BB&T, SunTrust to combine in $66B merger
The industry's largest acquisition in more than a decade will create the sixth-biggest bank in the country, with assets of more than $442 billion. ... Read full article
The industry's largest acquisition in more than a decade will create the sixth-biggest bank in the country, with assets of more than $442 billion. ... Read full article
The Virginia company, which recently bought Access National, will become Atlantic Union Bank later this year. ... Read full article
Reliance Bancshares was in a position to reject five buyout offers over the course of a year before it got one it liked. ... Read full article
Shaza Andersen, a well-known banker around the nation's capital, would serve as Trustar Bank's CEO. ... Read full article
The company will top $1 billion in assets after it buys the parent of F&M Bank in Tomah, Wis. ... Read full article
The Montana company will more than double its assets in Utah when it buys FNB Bancorp. ... Read full article
The Tennessee company will have $4 billion in assets and 47 branches in six states when it buys Entegra Financial. ... Read full article
Though it wil be based in the nation's capital, MOXY Bank will also have significant operations in Charlotte, N.C. ... Read full article
The North Carolina company agreed to pay $38 million in cash for First South Bancorp. ... Read full article
Silver River Community Bank is the fifth de novo in Florida to apply with the FDIC in the last three years. ... Read full article
The $128 million acquisition will provide First Financial with its first branches in Kentucky and Tennessee. ... Read full article
Organizers are planning to raise up to $25 million for Tandem Bank. ... Read full article
River Road Financial has agreed to buy Mississippi River Bank in a deal that will bring in a new CEO. ... Read full article
Bob Mahoney, CEO of Belmont Savings, called Jack Barnes after People's United agreed to buy a Connecticut bank. The banks announced their own merger agreement five months later. ... Read full article
Spirit Community Bank is the 15th bank to get the agency's approval this year. That list also includes Community Bank of the Carolinas, which was approved in early December. ... Read full article
James McLemore, one of our community bankers to watch in 2019, has more energy loans to purge and must exit the Small Business Lending fund and a BSA-related enforcement action. ... Read full article
The pressure is on CEO Christopher Myers, one of our community bankers to watch, to make the most of CVB Financial's biggest acquisition to date. ... Read full article
While these five bankers made headlines this year, not all of them did so for good reasons. ... Read full article
A big splash by Fifth Third, a bid by WSFS to reinvent itself and some bold long-distance expansions highlighted a year where deal activity held steady but premiums rose. ... Read full article
Stock Yards will remove a competitor in Louisville, Ky., and enter two markets outside of the city. ... Read full article