M&A
M&A
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Congress should avoid becoming so focused on the problems with big banks that they overlook the community lenders suffering from a lack of regulatory relief.
June 23 -
PBB Bancorp in Los Angeles has agreed to buy First Mountain Bank in Big Bear Lake, Calif., for about $13.4 million in cash and stock.
June 23 -
Live Oak Bancshares in Wilmington, N.C., has filed registration documents for an initial public offering, with plans to raise up to $86.3 million.
June 22 -
A breakdown of M&A announcements in the financial services industry for the week ended June 20.
June 22 -
Community banks get almost half of their service charges from overdraft fees. That could become problematic as regulators continue to look into the issue.
June 22 -
Dickinson Financial in Kansas City, Mo., has consolidated several of its banks charters to cut costs and improve marketing to military members.
June 22 -
CoBiz Financial in Denver plans to issue up subordinated debt to redeem its shares in the Small Business Lending Fund.
June 22 -
Royal Financial in Chicago has agreed to sell $29.1 million in distressed assets, a deal mandated by a bankruptcy judge as part of the company's acquisition of PNA Bank.
June 22 -
The $20.4 billion-asset company said in a news release that it could offer fixed-to-floating rate non-cumulative perpetual preferred stock, according to a shelf registration filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
June 22 -
New York Community Bancorp would stay profitable and maintain capital levels well above the necessary minimum if it was hit with a sustained economic shock, its stress-test report said. It is one of the larger banks subject to the so-called DFAST review.
June 22 -
Atlantic Coast Financial in Jacksonville, Fla., is in talks to restructure its debt and has reversed the valuation allowance on a deferred tax asset.
June 22 - Georgia
John Poelker recently stepped down from CertusHoldings in Greenville, S.C., but in less than a year on the job he broke up a $1.7 billion-asset company that had lost roughly $170 million from 2012 to 2014 amid investor claims of mismanagement and excessive spending by his predecessors. Here's a look at how he did it.
June 22 - Arkansas
Bear State Financial in Little Rock, Ark., has agreed to buy Metropolitan National Bank in Springfield, Mo.
June 22 -
Eagle Bancorp Montana in Helena has completed a $10 million private placement of subordinated bonds.
June 19 -
Pressure from community groups forced Valley National Bancorp to strengthen its commitment to lend in low-and moderate-income neighborhoods in order to win approval for a Florida acquisition. Other banks, too, are now placing CRA efforts front-and-center as they aim to sell deals to the public and their regulators.
June 19 -
The NCUA is proposing changes that would allow credit unions to approve applications more expeditiously, eliminating an edge long held by banks. The agency is also ready to let members make more commercial development loans.
June 19 - North Carolina
Yadkin Financial in Raleigh, N.C., has agreed to sell two branches in North Carolina to Select Bancorp in Dunn, N.C.
June 19 -
First Mid-Illinois Bancshares in Mattoon plans to sell about $29.3 million in common stock in a private placement.
June 18 -
Home Bancorp in Lafayette, La., has agreed to buy Louisiana Bancorp in Metairie for about $75 million, or $24.25 a share, in cash. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter.
June 18 -
JPMorgan investment banker Jimmy Lee was widely eulogized as a legendary networker and bright spirit this week, but American Banker also remembers him as a builder and defender of the hotly debated universal-banking model.
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