Capital

AloStar was formed in 2011 by an investor group that bought the failed Nexity Bank in Birmingham, Ala.

Casey Crawford, head of the rapidly growing Movement Mortgage, recently recapitalized First State Bank in Danville, Va., with his own money.

The Indiana company will pay $92 million for Wolverine Bancorp

The company will pay about $219 million for Diboll State Bancshares.

The company agreed to pay $162 million to buy First South Bancorp in Washington, N.C. It is the fifth time this year that a bank in North Carolina has agreed to be sold to a buyer from another state.

The Illinois company agreed to pay $44 million to buy Guaranty Bank, the biggest institution based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

MidSouth Bancorp in Louisiana, which faces a formal order from its regulators, will cut jobs, close branches and slash its dividend as it works to reduce its energy exposure.

Beacon Community Bank aims to become the first bank to open in Charleston, S.C., in a decade.

BCB Bancorp will pay $20 million for Indus American Bank, a New Jersey institution that focuses on the South Asian-American business community. Indus American lost a total of $2.5 million in 2015 and 2016.

The Louisiana company, which fired its CEO earlier this year, has been paying a hefty dividend on funds it obtained from the Treasury Department in 2011.

The Montana company has agreed to buy Columbine Capital in a deal that will add five branches and $330 million in loans in Colorado.

The accounting board has scheduled a meeting that bankers hope will produce eleventh-hour modifications to reserving requirements.

A controversial bank merger in Kansas City is likely to catch the eyes of credit union watchers as NCUA considers new rulemaking surrounding disclosures of incentives offered to board members and executives at merging CUs.

Former Inter-State Federal account holders believe they were shortchanged by the Missouri mutual's merger. A ruling in their favor could give depositors more power and could undermine what it means to be a mutual.

The Louisiana company's board has made it clear that independence is "not a God-given right" and wants new management to address energy loan issues, underwriting, capital and expenses.

The New York company, which plans to raise about $40 million by going public, could also use the funds to make acquisitions.

More than half of the company's loans and deposits would be in the Atlanta area after it buys Resurgens Bancorp.

Financial Institutions in Warsaw, N.Y., has replaced earlier plans for a typical stock sale with an at-the-market program.

The company was set to sell a 24% stake in itself to buy two Tennessee banks but has restructured the arrangement to avoid a potential conflict cited by a regulator.

The NCUA aims to give credit unions access to in-person hearings with its governing board. Such an opportunity is lacking at federal bank regulators.