Paul Davis

The companies had planned to make Chemical CEO David Provost the new leader before October's market gyrations led them to break off talks. When they revisited the deal, several things changed — including Provost's role.

Community banks are relying more on analytics, incentives and business partnerships in hopes of stemming an outflow of deposit relationships.

The North Carolina company was hit with a tax penalty tied to its purchase of Chattahoochee Bank of Georgia.

The Montana company agreed to buy Heritage Bancorp for $241 million.

The first quarter proved sluggish for overall merger activity. Here are notable deals announced in March.

The Illinois company will pay about $10 million, and redeem $23.5 million in trust-preferred stock, as part of the deal.

The company plans to sell its third-party origination channel to Renasant. It has also lined up a deal to sell its correspondent channel.

University Bancorp gained a number of offices from Huron Valley Financial. It also hired lenders and staff with experience in reverse mortgages and wholesale lending.

Paul, one of American Banker's Community Bankers of the Year in 2012, made Eagle a formidable Washington-area institution.

Christopher Becker will succeed Michael Vittorio in January.

The California banking company has two loans tied to DC Solar that are on nonaccrual status.

The combined bank would be chartered in North Carolina, with the FDIC serving as its lead federal regulator, N.C. Banking Commissioner Ray Grace says. The merger partners had other options, including the Fed and the OCC.

Loyal Trust Bank will have a large number of Asian-American investors and board members.

It took less than six months to hammer out the biggest bank merger in more than a decade, and the price was one of the last things discussed, according to a new federal filing.

Franklin Financial, which was recently freed from a memorandum of understanding, has installed interim leaders after its founding CEO's retirement and his son's resignation.

After converting to a mutual savings bank in 2013, the former CU is set to become a fully stock-owned company.

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

The former credit union will shed its mutual status when it becomes a fully stock-owned company.

Jared Wolff, a former PacWest executive, had been the general counsel at City National Bank.

The company will open its first office in Iowa after buying the business from Bankers Trust.