The bank has shifted Chief Operating Officer Finn Caspersen Jr. to chief strategic officer and hired Robert Plante to succeed him as COO.
Heartland will gain 12 branches around Denver and Boulder after it buys the $1.4 billion-asset Citywide.
Kirk Wycoff of Patriot Financial Partners will soon join PL Capital's Richard Lashley on the California company's board.
Clayton Bank and American City Bank are owned by Clayton HC and have a combined $1.2 billion in assets.
Longtime TCF Chairman and CEO Bill Cooper, who died Tuesday at the age of 73, is being remembered as an innovator who never forgot where he came from.
Joseph Ficalora, New York Community's CEO, told analysts that his company could still have a chance to buy Astoria "down the road."
The moves show a commitment to bigger markets and make it easier for analysts and investors to visit management.
Legion Partners, which has raised concerns about corporate governance and pushed the bank to consider selling itself, will seek two board seats.
The deal includes about 250 correspondent relationships accounting for more than $7 billion of annual agency and governmental residential mortgage loan production.
First Busey plans to close the $236 million cash-and-stock acquisition by the middle of this year.
