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The Texas company would add seven branches and more than $300 million of assets by acquiring Valley Bancorp.

The five-year-old company is offering lines of credit to early-stage consumer brands, which can often only get financing at high interest rates.

First Financial in Ohio is buying MainSource in Indiana — with a twist. MainSource's leader will become CEO.

Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group has agreed to buy a majority stake in Virginia Community Bank in a rare instance of a nondepository mortgage company buying a bank, rather than the reverse.

The company agreed to buy MainSource Financial in Indiana for $1 billion, creating a Midwestern bank that will have more than 200 branches and $13 billion in assets.

TCF executives were peppered with questions about the quality of $345 million in auto loans recategorized as held for investment in the second quarter, as a result of the company’s recent move away from loan sales and securitizations.

Now that the Federal Reserve has raised short-term rates four times in the past 18 months, all eyes are on deposit costs as banks seek to keep pricing low and fatten margins. But that effort is complicated by the fact that banks must prepare for the unwinding of the Fed's balance sheet and consumers' rapid adoption of mobile deposits.

The $482 million deal would be Associated's first bank acquisition since June 2007.