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Caliber will also buy about $36 million of mortgage servicing rights in a deal that is expected to close at the end of March.

The move will more than double the size of Eldorado's branch network, while allowing MidCountry to exit the market.

Columbia Banking's CEO, who died unexpectedly on Sunday, was a thoughtful and tenacious leader who leaves a legacy of turning a small Washington bank into a regional power in the Pacific Northwest.

West Town will pay $24.6 million in cash and stock for Sound Banking. The deal will close later this year.

The deal comes months after First Merchants bought a minority stake in Independent Alliance.

The deal with American Homestead Mortgage will allow Wintrust Mortgage to move into northern Montana.

The OCC wants California First to implement “prudent concentration limits” on leveraged loans.

CapGen, once a vocal critic of management, will cut its holdings to as little as 3% of shares outstanding.

Not every bank could simultaneously make and entertain acquisition offers like Pacific Continental did, but its story highlights hard questions facing financial institutions in a consolidating industry.

Heartland will gain 12 branches around Denver and Boulder after it buys the $1.4 billion-asset Citywide.

Kirk Wycoff of Patriot Financial Partners will soon join PL Capital's Richard Lashley on the company's board.

The announcement comes a day after the company's board announced a series of corporate-governance improvements.

Clayton Bank and American City Bank are owned by Clayton HC and have a combined $1.2 billion in assets.

Richard Lashley at PL Capital is taking over a board seat previously held by former CEO Steven Sugarman.

Legion Partners, which has raised concerns about corporate governance and pushed the bank to consider selling itself, will seek two board seats.

The deal includes about 250 correspondent relationships accounting for more than $7 billion of annual agency and governmental residential mortgage loan production.

First Busey plans to close the $236 million cash-and-stock acquisition by the middle of this year.

Chaney was CEO of Hancock Holding in Mississippi for nearly a decade, overseeing a period of substantial growth.

First Interstate missed out on two chances to snag Cascade before agreeing to buy the company in November, showing the importance of staying in touch with a target.

United continues to extend a far-flung operation that includes branches in Chicago, Denver and Florida.