Capital

The Arkansas company is selling more than $300 million in stock a year before its DFAST test in June 2018.

The $3.2 billion-asset company is making a bigger push into northern Indiana with its agreement to buy Lafayette Community Bancorp.

Regulators have hinted that they're warming up to the idea of startups, but industry veteran George Groves is raising money to buy an existing bank because he fears the approval process would take too long.

The Tennessee bank has agreed to pay nearly $85 million for Capstone Bancshares in Alabama.

The money will be used to hire more people. It is also a morale boost for the group, which has suffered some high-profile recent defections.

Union Bankshares is poised to become a nearly $12 billion-asset bank in a state that lost most of its midsize institutions in the 1990s and early 2000s.

The company agreed to buy Commerce Bancshares, which has three branches in Boston.

The $701 million acquisition will make Union the biggest community bank based in Virginia.

Financial Institutions in western New York withdrew plans to raise $40 million.

The former New Jersey mutual is stepping up efforts to court bigger commercial clients. The move will help Investors diversify its loan book and deploy capital while it is barred from buying banks.