The Dallas company says it could repurchase as much as 8% of its common stock and still have the wherewithal to pursue an acquisition — all in an effort to strengthen its value in the eyes of investors.

The state's largest banks posted solid third-quarter loan growth and earnings. But Hawaii's tourism-heavy economy is vulnerable to lofty inflation and the threat of a downturn.

The $7.1 billion-asset bank has established a partnership with the nonprofit HoneyBee that harks to its early days serving underbanked Korean business owners in Los Angeles in the early 1980s.

The shift in refi behavior — in the wake of multiple Federal Reserve interest rate hikes — helped fuel a loan growth trend that's expected to continue through year-end.

High-net-worth clients with large policies borrow, on average, $500,000 to $800,000 to pay their premiums. Peapack-Gladstone predicts the product, which it launched this month, will be one of its top business lines within six years.

Republic Bancorp said it would pay $51 million in cash for CBank and its subsidiary Commercial Industrial Finance.

Strong commodity prices and jumps in energy production fuel the Oklahoma bank's upbeat outlook for continued loan demand, despite inflationary pressures and high interest rates.

The all-stock acquisition of Limestone Bancorp in Louisville would give the buyer an additional $1.5 billion of assets and 20 branches in the Bluegrass State.

Bank of Princeton in New Jersey said it would pay $25 million in cash to acquire Noah Bank, whose former CEO was convicted on charges that included bank bribery and theft.

Citizens Financial said it would pay $67.4 million to buy HV Bancorp, the holding company for Huntingdon Valley Bank, in a bid to expand in Greater Philadelphia.