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The parent of Bell Bank said that the pending sale of Discovery Benefits is not a prelude to selling its bank.

The Montana company will more than double its assets in Utah when it buys FNB Bancorp.

The Iowa company will pay $94 million for a bank with five branches and $727 million in loans.

The company recently agreed to be sold to SmartFinancial in Knoxville, Tenn.

Bob Jones will retire in early May. He will be succeeded by Jim Ryan, the Indiana company's chief financial officer.

The U.S. unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial has agreed to buy a platform from GE Capital.

The Tennessee company will have $4 billion in assets and 47 branches in six states when it buys Entegra Financial.

Heartland said the sales will allow it to focus on other operations.

Many federal agencies have been closed for more than three weeks, making it the longest shutdown in U.S. history. With no end in sight, here's how it's affecting banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders.

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The North Carolina company agreed to pay $38 million in cash for First South Bancorp.

Silver River Community Bank is the fifth de novo in Florida to apply with the FDIC in the last three years.

The $128 million acquisition will provide First Financial with its first branches in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Organizers are planning to raise up to $25 million for Tandem Bank.

Bob Mahoney, CEO of Belmont Savings, called Jack Barnes after People's United agreed to buy a Connecticut bank. The banks announced their own merger agreement five months later.

Spirit Community Bank is the 15th bank to get the agency's approval this year. That list also includes Community Bank of the Carolinas, which was approved in early December.

James McLemore, one of our community bankers to watch in 2019, has more energy loans to purge and must exit the Small Business Lending fund and a BSA-related enforcement action.

It was a year to remember for women executives at SunTrust and Amex’s new CEO, and one to forget for Wells Fargo and investors in bank stocks.

While these five bankers made headlines this year, not all of them did so for good reasons.

A big splash by Fifth Third, a bid by WSFS to reinvent itself and some bold long-distance expansions highlighted a year where deal activity held steady but premiums rose.