Paul Davis

Holding multiple face-to-face meetings with executives from MB Financial helped Fifth Third land the Chicago company for a lower price than another suitor offered.

The company agreed to aquire United Bancorp. for $51 million.

Old National will have the fifth-biggest deposit market share in the city when it completes the $434 million acquisition.

The company will pay $48 million for four branches and $230 million in loans.

Ruoff Financial will make its first push into banking with the purchase of SBB Bancshares.

The Connecticut company will have nearly $48 billion in assets after it buys First Connecticut Bancorp.

The deal for the Denver commercial lender joins a growing list of large acquisitions being announced in competitive urban markets.

C.G. Kum, who has been the Los Angeles company's CEO the past five years, plans to retire in May.

Cadence first discussed a deal with the Atlanta target four years ago. But negotiations picked up steam once it was clear State Bank had another suitor.

The acquisition will help Carolina Trust expand its operations around Charlotte.

The Indiana bank would add nearly $100 million in deposits with its purchase of FM Bancorp.

The Seattle company is firing 127 people, or a tenth of its mortgage staff, after enduring months of slow activity.

Charter One wanted to sell itself quickly because it feared valuations had peaked, and CenterState was able to beat other potential suitors to the punch.

Park Financial has agreed to buy shares from one of the founders of Mesaba Bancshares.

The company will gain 10 branches and $145 million in loans after it buys Gideon Bancshares.

The company, which has completed eight acquisitions since 2015, agreed to buy City Bank and Trust in Oklahoma.

Nearly a third of the company's revenue will come from noninterest income after it buys SCB, which owns a large insurance and farmland management business.

Donegal Group and Donegal Mutual Insurance are selling the holding company for Union Community Bank in Lancaster County.

The Virginia bank has submitted the paperwork for Carolina State Bank, adding to the list of groups looking to open the state's first de novo since 2009.

Seacoast's deposits in the central Florida city will increase by 49% after it completes the $133 million acquisition.