News Topic: M&A

Selling $1.6 billion in mortgages, and paying off a similar amount of wholesale borrowings, will allow the company to expand its net interest margin in 2019. ... Read full article

Stock Yards will remove a competitor in Louisville, Ky., and enter two markets outside of the city. ... Read full article

The sale should increase Shore's capital levels and allow it to expand its banking activities. ... Read full article

Colony will also gain a loan production office in Atlanta when the transaction closes. ... Read full article

Ameris has agreed to pay $751 million for Atlanta-based Fidelity; the combined company would have $16 billion in assets. ... Read full article

In a rare move, Maryland Financial is voluntarily liquidating after its customer base shrank and efforts to sell itself failed. ... Read full article

Chicago Deferred Exchange, which helps clients defer tax hits from property sales, had about $1 billion in deposit flows this year. ... Read full article

The San Diego bank has agreed to assume $225 million in deposits at no premium from Modern Woodmen of America, which is shuttering MWABank, its direct bank subsidiary. ... Read full article

Virginia Partners will operate as a separate bank unit after the deal closes. ... Read full article

The Wilmington, Del., company has identified the 30 branches it plans to close or sell following its acquisition of Beneficial Bancorp in Philadelphia. Most the the closures will take place in Pennsylvania. ... Read full article

When Trinity Capital in New Mexico put itself up for sale last summer, it reached out to several local banks to gauge their interest. Then came a surprise offer from a suitor based a thousand miles away. ... Read full article

Synovus has given CFO Kevin Blair the additional title of COO. He will oversee three business lines, plus tech, operations and product and treasury management. ... Read full article

The $180 million acquisition is the first for Berkshire since the sudden departure of CEO Michael Daly. ... Read full article

The $25.5 billion-asset company has also restructured its securities portfolio as part of a broader effort to reduce costs and improve profits. ... Read full article

Associated will gain low-cost deposits and branches in 13 new markets after the deal closes. ... Read full article

The former head of Heritage Oaks Bancorp says she relishes a chance to reinvent Luther Burbank, a thrift that wants to make more commercial loans — a shift she has deftly orchestrated before. ... Read full article

Uniti Financial focuses on the Korean-American community through three offices around Los Angeles. ... Read full article

The company has agreed to by $145 million for Bridgeview Bancorp. ... Read full article