News Topic: Growth strategies

The $60 million acquisition will allow ACNB, which is based in Pennsylvania, to enter a new market. ... Read full article

The deal comes less than a week after the Louisiana company raised nearly $11 million. ... Read full article

The thrift had been known as Boiling Springs Savings Bank. ... Read full article

The New Jersey regional will have higher capital levels after buying Oritani Financial. That was just one of the reasons why CEO Ira Robbins overcame his aversion to M&A. ... Read full article

Valley, which had focused on Florida in recent years, will double its market share in Bergen County with the $740 million acquisition. ... Read full article

Ken Lehman recently bought a block of shares in Village Bank & Trust Financial. ... Read full article

The deal with Frandsen Financial is the 12th bank M&A transaction this year involving a seller in Wisconsin. ... Read full article

Shore Community Bank, which has five branches in Ocean County, will sell for $53 million. ... Read full article

First Internet is poised to acquire an SBA lending team to help it meet an ambitious loan target for the year — a target the CEO plans on doubling in coming years. ... Read full article

A Wisconsin credit union's agreement to acquire a small Chicago bank, the eighth credit union-bank deal this year, led bankers to once again call for policymakers to slow the trend. A credit union trade group complained that banks are trying to stifle ... Read full article

The deal, among the four biggest bank acquisitions announced this year, would make Prosperity the second-largest bank based in Texas. ... Read full article

The Tulsa, Okla., bank is adding Jim Thompson as director of senior housing investments. ... Read full article

Ken Lehman will gain a 40% stake in the Tennessee bank as part of a broader plan to raise $13 million. ... Read full article

Gate City Bank announced that Kevin Hanson, who has been at the bank for 36 years, will succeed Steve Swiontek as CEO next month. ... Read full article

The Enloe State Bank in Texas becomes the first bank to fail in 17 months; BB&T dangles promise of bonus payments to top executives if they stay; where JPMorgan Chase’s Finn experiment went wrong; and more from this week’s most-read stories. ... Read full article

Columbia plans to incorporate certain aspects of Stewardship Financial's charitable giving into its own foundation. ... Read full article

The North Dakota company agreed to buy the $90 million-asset Prairie Mountain Bank. ... Read full article

DNB had been facing pressure from an activist investor to consider selling itself. ... Read full article