News Topic: texas

Consolidation activity was ho-hum for most of April before a burst of transactions — and notable ones at that — were announced in the month's final week. ... Read full article

The New Orleans company is comfortable buying with the deal despite MidSouth's lingering credit issues, given a shared history and the opportunity to add low-cost deposits. ... Read full article

The Houston company has already converted the systems and brand from January's acquisition, allowing it to focus more on bringing in business. ... Read full article

The San Antonio bank reported 6.8% growth in loans, but Phil Green said he was unwilling to match overly generous prices and underwriting terms that he is seeing in the market. ... Read full article

The Oklahoma company will pay $122 million for a bank with three branches in Dallas. ... Read full article

Investors seem to be betting that a long-rumored sale of the Dallas company is on hold now that it has named a new CEO, but analysts say it remains an attractive takeover target for a larger regional bank. ... Read full article

The Dallas regional assured analysts that it has ample sources of liquidity to fund its expected loan growth. ... Read full article

Alliance Bank Central Texas may have found a way around National Credit Union Administration regulations that make it difficult for banks to buy credit unions. ... Read full article

The Mississippi company will pay more than $200 million for the parent companies of Texas Star Bank and Summit Bank. ... Read full article

Alan White, who will step down in April, and Jeremy Ford have served as the company's co-CEOs since September 2016. ... Read full article

The company has agreed to buy Preferred Bancshares in a deal set to close by mid-2019. ... Read full article

Community banks generally make digital a consumer play, but TransPecos Bank, with its BankMD brand, is focusing on doctor practices, which tend to weather economic downturns well. ... Read full article

The regional bank is roughly a third of the way to the 260 workers needed to staff the 25 branches it plans to open there over two years. ... Read full article

Woodforest National Bank made so many C&I loans that it cut into capital and required more liquidity. It has shifted gears, selling two business lines as it refocuses on deposit gathering. ... Read full article

The New York company will add $504 million of asset-based and equipment-finance loans as part of the acquisition. ... Read full article

The Texas bank disclosed that James Dreibelbis, a longtime Woodforest executive, succeeded Nash as president and CEO in late December. ... Read full article

Stephen Raffaele has been the bank's president since 2016. ... Read full article

Cadence has upped the exchange ratio by 10%, a move made necessary by the 40% decline in its stock price since the deal was announced in May. ... Read full article