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."

Bankers remember Bob Wilmers not only for spearheading the growth of M&T, but also embracing his role as the industry's voice in turbulent times.

The market for initial public offerings was the best since 2014, reflecting a surge in bank stocks and a need to fuel expansion plans.

Southeastern Trust is being sold to a group led by the unit's management team.

The planned purchase of Home BanCorp will nearly double the size of First Citizens' branch network in the Sunshine State.

The company has agreed to buy Kansas Bank Corp. and Adams Dairy Bancshares in separate transactions.

The purchase will significantly increase Hancock's assets under management and administration.

Robert Wilmers joined M&T in 1983 when it had just $2 billion of assets and built it into a regional powerhouse with $120 billion of assets and operations in a dozen states.

For the first time in nearly nine years, an acquirer of a failed bank agreed to purchase only the institution’s insured deposits, making it likely that some customers will not recoup all of their uninsured funds.

The number of deals, overall dollar volume and premiums are on pace to top those from a year earlier, giving hope that even more consolidation will take place in 2018.

Kevin Tylus had been CEO of Royal Bank, which Bryn Mawr recently bought.

Amalgamated's purchase of New Resource Bank is part of a broader strategy to enter more U.S. markets.

The company, which had recently expressed confidence that the issue would be resolved, agreed last month to buy a bank in Florida.

The holding company structure makes sense for large banks with complex business models and small banks looking to bulk up through acquisitions. But for a large swath of banks in the middle, the benefits are harder to spot.

Dekalb County Credit Union has just $6 million in assets -- approximately the same amount that Vibrant earned in net income last year.

Target Corp. agreed to purchase grocery-delivery startup Shipt Inc. for $550 million, stepping up efforts to challenge Amazon.com Inc. in e-commerce orders.

The company agreed to pay $18 million for Atlantic Bancshares in a deal that will increase its operations along South Carolina's coast.