DMG Bancshares, formed by banking veteran Don Griffith, wants to buy more West Coast banks. For California First, the sale ends a four-year period in which it substantially shrank its loan book after it was ordered to shed leveraged loans.

For the second time in three years, the Cleveland thrift has received a low score on its Community Reinvestment Act examination for making too few home loans in low-income communities.

PayPal Holdings Inc. is in talks to acquire the startup Curv, which helps companies transfer and store digital currencies.

The bank's purchase of Sodak Home Loans in Sioux Falls, S.D., adds to a string of bank deals for mortgage lenders this year.

The company has agreed to pay $43 million for a bank with assets of $354 million.

Ingenious Financial in Arlington, Va., is raising $200 million in hopes of buying an existing bank. Bank of Ingenious would focus on professionals such as doctors, dentists and veterinarians.

Members of two smaller institutions will soon vote on whether to join South Carolina-based REV, boosting its assets by 15% and giving it a foothold in North Carolina.

Private equity firm Advent International is merging portfolio companies Transaction Services Group and Clearent, paving the way to another payments giant.

JPMorgan Chase is stepping up its search for acquisition targets as competition intensifies from financial technology firms and other new rivals.

The Alabama company is instead on the hunt for nonbank acquisition candidates as well as employees or clients it could lure away from regional banks that have announced merger deals recently, John Turner says.

The UAE-Israeli consortium that acquired UAE Exchange is in merger talks with Bahrain’s BFC Group Holdings to create a Middle Eastern remittances and currency firm with more than 24 million customers in 30 countries.

The London company poured cold water on speculation a deal to divest its 152-branch network in the United States was imminent. But biding its time here while focusing on issues in other parts of its global operation could drive up the price in a seller’s M&A market.

Payments technology provider NMI is acquiring USAePay to boost its multichannel service offerings for its independent sales organization network, as well as bank and fintech innovation partners.

Wells Fargo plans to sell its asset management business to two private equity firms, part of Chief Executive Charlie Scharf's efforts to dump nonessential operations and help the bank emerge from years of scandals.

M&T had long coveted the Connecticut regional but couldn't make a deal work. Their merger is the latest example of regional banks joining forces to compete in an industry undergoing rapid transformation.

The five-year pledge, tied to the company's pending acquisition of CIT Group, earmarks nearly $6 billion for small-business lending and $3.2 billion for affordable housing.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a prompt corrective action directive to First National Bank and Trust in January, requiring it to hire a forensic auditor and provide the OCC with access to documents and records.

The deal for the $63 billion-asset People's United would create a company with more than $200 billion of assets and a branch network stretching from Maine to Virginia. Buffalo, N.Y.-based M&T has not made an acquisition since buying Hudson City Bancorp in late 2015.

The company has agreed to pay $32 million for a bank with six branches and $256 million of assets.

The Houston-based lender is working with financial advisers to solicit interest from potential buyers, according to people familiar with the matter.