Paul Davis

The company will gain four Chicago-area branches as part of the $41 million all-cash acquisition for the parent of ABC Bank.

Rita Lowman recently joined the bank from C1 Financial, where she had been chief operating officer.

Davis, who stepped down as CEO a year ago, will retire as the company's chairman and as an employee at the end of 2017. Umpqua will then become one of the few publicly traded banking companies with a female chair.

We never promised the news would be good for all these community bankers, and it wasn’t. One couldn’t stop a failure, and another quit soon after an acquisition. The rest have their banks at different points on the comeback trail.

The acquisition will give LCNB its first branch and deposits in the Columbus, Ohio, market.

Heritage Commerce will pay $32 million for Tri-Valley in a deal that should be accretive to tangible book value and earnings.

The company will set aside more than $10 million, with most of the provision addressing an issue with a commercial loan.

The $280 million securitization is also expected to boost capital levels and lower Dime's loan-to-deposit ratio.

Washington Federal in Chicago, which had a clean balance sheet and plenty of capital on Sept. 30, was shuttered shortly after the death of its CEO and regulators' discovery of "substantial dissipation of assets."

Bankers remember Bob Wilmers not only for spearheading the growth of M&T, but also embracing his role as the industry's voice in turbulent times.

Southeastern Trust is being sold to a group led by the unit's management team.

The planned purchase of Home BanCorp will nearly double the size of First Citizens' branch network in the Sunshine State.

The company has agreed to buy Kansas Bank Corp. and Adams Dairy Bancshares in separate transactions.

The purchase will significantly increase Hancock's assets under management and administration.

A representative from Basswood Capital will become a director in May.

The company said it will lay off more than a dozen employees in a move that reflects the current volume of mortgage loan originations.

Kevin Tylus had been CEO of Royal Bank, which Bryn Mawr recently bought.

Amalgamated's purchase of New Resource Bank is part of a broader strategy to enter more U.S. markets.

The company, which had recently expressed confidence that the issue would be resolved, agreed last month to buy a bank in Florida.

The company agreed to pay $18 million for Atlantic Bancshares in a deal that will increase its operations along South Carolina's coast.