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The company agreed to pay $41 million for Victory Community Bank.

The company will pay nearly $33 million for Tomah Bancshares to boost its operations in Wisconsin's Monroe County.

Hamp Johnston, a former market executive at JPMorgan Chase, would serve as RockPoint Bank's president and CEO. The bank would be based in Chattanooga.

The deal is Seacoast's third acquisition of a bank with operations in Palm Beach County.

There's been chatter that investors are shying away from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities because Congress may not enact housing finance reform. Be skeptical of those claims.

United Bankshares in West Virginia was willing to pay a healthy premium for Carolina Financial, one of a dwindling number of available banks with more than $4 billion in assets.

The company will pay $1.1 billion for Carolina Financial in Charleston, S.C., in a deal that will add nearly $5 billion in assets.

The Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians plans to form a holding company and raise $25 million for Legacy Bank.

A group has filed paperwork with the FDIC to form Legacy Bank in Temecula.

Dealmaking through early November is slightly ahead of last year's clip thanks to a recent flurry of merger announcements. However, excluding BB&T-SunTrust, values and multiples are shrinking.