Capital

His Berkshire Hathaway exercised 6-year-old warrants to buy 700 million shares at an $11.5 billion discount.

Heartland Bank had been operating under a regulatory order from the Fed since December.

In the coming year, bankers in Puerto Rico will need to keep an eye on how steep cuts in government spending will affect the island’s consumers, says José Rafael Fernández, CEO of OFG Bancorp.

Studio Bank aims to become the first de novo in Nashville in nearly a decade.

Former lawyer Kenneth Lehman will pay at least $10 million for a controlling stake in ABB Financial in Atlanta.

Home will add 12 branches and nearly $600 million in assets when it completes the acquisition.

In anticipation of future changes, bank regulators will allow all but the largest banks to avoid a planned phase-in of 2013 capital rules.

Post-election euphoria tamped down M&A talk as bankers were hopeful that reform would justify staying independent. But there are signs bankers are getting restless.

The $1.5 billion-asset company agreed to buy Southern Missouri Bancshares to expand into two strategically important markets.

The Alabama company agreed to buy FirstAtlantic Financial for $108 million.