Paul Davis

Longstanding familiarity with each other and years of informal talks helped the companies negotiate their $7.6 billion merger in just two months.

USI Insurance Services agreed to buy Northwest Insurance Services in a deal that should close later this quarter.

The Illinois company would gain its first two branches in Winnebago County as part of the deal.

The Texas company has agreed to acquire HubTran, which offers artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities for the transportation sector.

Organizers of the Florida de novo will need to raise $17 million in capital before opening.

The California company will gain $4 billion of low-cost deposits with its $250 million acquisition of the homeowners association services division.

Heritage Southeast Bank in Georgia, at $1.6 billion of assets, would become the largest bank to be sold to a credit union.

Sam Sidhu, whose father is CEO Jay Sidhu, will become president and chief executive of Customers Bank in July.

Peoples Bancorp will pay $292 million for the West Virginia company. It also announced it's buying a leasing company in Vermont.

A federal watchdog agency determined that Almena State Bank's push into government-backed loans, supported with high-cost wholesale funding, set it up for collapse when significant credit issues arose.