Consolidations

Cost-cutting will be important, but for its acquisition of CoBiz to be a winner, BOK Financial will have to prove it can boost fee income as it has with smaller acquisitions.

Blue Lion Capital, which has been a vocal critic of the Seattle company's strategy, also wants management to consider selling its MSR portfolio.

Ameris Bancorp said that Edwin Hortman will step down as president and CEO in July but will continue as chairman.

First Midwest Bancorp has agreed to buy Northern States Financial in Waukegan, Ill., for $91 million.

A lack of talent, capital and good business planning proved fatal for bank organizers in California and Georgia.

Blue Gate Bank, which opened in January 2017, is being sold to Big Poppy Holdings.

The Pennsylvania company agreed to pay $17 million for Community First. It is Emclaire's third bank acquisition deal since early 2016.

The high multiple Fifth Third is paying for MB Financial raises questions about whether it can cut enough costs, realize enough growth and win over skeptical investors.

Capitol Federal Financial has mostly relied on mortgages throughout its history. Its acquisition of a commercial lender will change that.

The California company ended up selling 1 million more shares than it had originally planned to offer.

Subordinated debt issuance, which took a back seat as bank stocks surged, could regain popularity as growth-minded banks become leery of market uncertainty.

Christopher Bergstrom led Cardinal Financial when it sold itself to United Bankshares in 2017.

It might make sense to scrap a decades-old name, especially for banks with aggressive growth plans.

Dan Rollins engineered nearly a dozen deals while at Prosperity Bank. Now CEO at BancorpSouth, he has returned to M&A after spending four frustrating years dealing with compliance issues.

Putting aside the spin of both credit unions and banks, we offer some informed predictions about how the financial industry would be reconfigured if the century-old tax break were to disappear.

Buyers are scooping up many of the market's biggest banks, making it harder for others to gain scale.

The Louisiana company has vowed to meaningfully improve investor returns and efficiency over the next two years.

Sussex Bancorp, which recently completed its first whole-bank acquisition, is rebranding itself as SB One Bancorp.

BancorpSouth, which had two prior deals delayed over BSA and CRA issues, has agreed to buy a bank in the Houston area.

The company, which completed a major acquisition last year, said tax reform will help it generate a higher return on average assets.