After a year of trying to appease U.S. regulators, Ant Financial and MoneyGram have terminated their merger agreement, challenging the Chinese company's strategy for global expansion.

Acquirers announced deals in California, Missouri and Pennsylvania on the last business day of 2017, raising the year's final tally to 245 transactions.

My Choice FCU had assets of just $1.5 million, compared to the $3.7 billion assets held by Tinker FCU.

State and federal regulators finally approved the Mississippi bank’s acquisitions of Ouachita Bancshares and Central Community after anti-laundering and CRA matters were resolved. BancorpSouth’s CEO says he may pursue more deals.

The energy crisis, hurricane damage and merger costs have hampered earnings per share at the Louisiana bank. Its CEO has to clear those hurdles and convince investors steady growth is ahead.

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

Bank M&A started off with a bang this year, with eight of the 10 biggest deals taking place in the first six months. North Carolina and Florida accounted for six deals on the list.

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.

The wealth management firm Boston Private has agreed to sell Anchor Capital Advisors to Anchor’s management team.

Small Michigan CU will merge into BlueOx Credit Union of Battle Creek.

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

The deal for the San Diego company would be PNC's second nonbank acquisition in less than a month.

The merger is the next step in a process which has seen NWCUA managing the Idaho league since Jan. 1, 2017.

Citizens Community CU -- which entered conservatorship after a ten-fold rise in delinquent loans -- will merge with First Community of Jamestown, N.D. early next year.

The Fed approved an application giving Natcom Bancshares indirect control over Republic Bank, declining to take into account claims the transaction imperils the target's S corporation status.

This year has been very good to regional banks, bitcoin investors and several bank CEOs who pulled off big deals or successfully refined business models.

Amalgamated in New York wants to enter several left-leaning cities across the country, but it might be tough to find more like-minded banks to buy.

The company agreed to buy PBB Bancorp in Los Angeles just five weeks after completing its last bank acquisition.

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."