When potential sellers are skittish, a merger pitch from a peer who’s been through it can make the difference.

KS Bancorp is buying back all the shares that First Citizens acquired in an effort to take over the much smaller bank.

The Massachusetts bank agreed to buy Fabri & Rourke, which focuses on commercial insurance products.

The company agreed to buy the parent of First National Bank of Crossett for about $13 million.

The most common credit union mergers involve a small credit union being acquired by a much larger one, but that could be changing, as three recent deals involving credit unions with more than $300 million in assets as the ones being merged out.

Regulatory burden was the dominant theme of a roundtable discussion, but executives are also concerned about their ability to attract skilled workers and they have mixed feelings on how corporate tax cuts are affecting customers' decisions.

Bigger credit unions present a formidable challenge for banks in areas such as business lending.

The $18 million-asset credit union has lost money each year since at least 2015. Service 1st, meanwhile, made more than $3.1 million last year.

RIchardson & Stout, which is based in western New York, is the 16th insurance business that Evans has bought or agreed to buy.

A need for risk-focused data aggregation and analytics tools is at the heart of IBM's latest acquisition for its bank consulting portfolio.

Beacon Community Bank, which opened in January, raised $34 million through a private placement.

State Bank popped up on the Houston company’s radar eight years ago, but management waited until now to strike.

The Houston company had been an interested, but selective, acquirer before announcing this year's biggest bank deal.

The investment bank agreed to buy Business Bancshares in St. Louis.

Capitol Federal Financial has mostly relied on mortgages throughout its history. Its acquisition of a commercial lender will change that.

Mutual of Omaha Bank's purchase of Synergy One Lending will add reverse mortgages to its product line.

The California company ended up selling 1 million more shares than it had originally planned to offer.

The deal, which still requires regulatory approval, will give Credit Union ONE about $1.4 billion in assets and 26 branch locations throughout the state.

Subordinated debt issuance, which took a back seat as bank stocks surged, could regain popularity as growth-minded banks become leery of market uncertainty.

Financial Institutions agreed to buy HNP Capital, a wealth management firm near Rochester.