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The $2.9 billion deal is the Georgia company's first traditional whole-bank acquisition since 2006. It is also the year's second-biggest bank acquisition.

The Los Angeles company, which focuses on Korean-Americans, aims to raise $50 million.

Anchor will be sold to FS Bancorp after agreeing to terminate a deal with Washington Federal. The original deal had been delayed as Washington Federal dealt with BSA issues.

Organizers of Gainey Business Bank, a bank planned in Scottsdale, received approval from the state's banking regulator to raise capital while completing a charter application.

P. Byron DeFoor, who already has majority stakes in two community banks, is planning to buy First Columbia Bancorp.

The New Jersey company will pay $76 million for a bank with a low loan-to-deposit ratio and an SBA lending platform.

The West Virginia company will pay a total of $118 million for Poage Bankshares and Farmers Deposit Bancorp.

Moxy Bank would focus on low- and moderate-income depositors in the nation's capital, while operating a lending platform in North Carolina.

Coastal Financial in Everett, Wash., said that it could be active in M&A with capital from its IPO and that it has already identified several possible targets.

First Western Financial in Denver could use the roughly $31 million it is hoping to raise to pay off debt and redeem preferred shares.