Paul Davis

Independent Bank in Texas, the seller, gained the business after buying Guaranty Bancorp.

Community bankers want to cut the time it takes for customers to establish digital accounts to mere minutes, but it's hard to do that and make other improvements without increasing fraud risk.

Shareholders of both companies will meet separately next month to cast ballots on the $28 billion deal, and BB&T investors will also decide whether the new company should be called Truist Financial.

The deal, among the four biggest bank acquisitions announced this year, would make Prosperity the second-largest bank based in Texas.

The combined company will be known as Truist, which plays off “trust,” a word the banks’ original names had in common.

Founders Bank is the latest de novo effort that will target the nation's capital.

Columbia plans to incorporate certain aspects of Stewardship Financial's charitable giving into its own foundation.

The North Dakota company agreed to buy the $90 million-asset Prairie Mountain Bank.

DNB had been facing pressure from an activist investor to consider selling itself.

The company will pick up five branches as part of the $48 million deal.

The company has agreed to buy Trinity Bancorp for $27 million in cash and stock.

Many community banks have given up on national mortgage platforms as not worth the effort, but organizers of NXG Bank in Maryland say they have a plan to make one work.

Lori Bettinger is one of the organizers of NXG Bank, which has applied to open in Columbia, Md.

Regulators closed The Enloe State Bank in Texas late Friday, marking the first failure in 17 months and the first in the Lone Star State in over five years.

The company agreed to buy Charter Bank, which has four branches and $161 million in assets.

First Internet will gain lenders and servicing staff, along with offices in Chicago and Indianapolis, from the deal.

American Bank & Trust opened after organizers raised more than $22.5 million.

Banesco USA agreed to buy Brickell more than a year after Banco Espirito tried to sell the Miami bank to a Swiss financier.

Blue Ridge Bankshares will be based in Charlottesville, Va., after completing its $43 million purchase of Virginia Community Bancshares.

Heritage will have 17 branches around San Francisco when it completes the $200 million acquisition.