Veritex Holdings announced that its deal to buy interLINK has been terminated by the seller's parent, StoneCastle Partners in New York. No reason was given, though Veritex says regulatory pushback was not to blame.

The North Carolina bank's insurance subsidiary agreed to pay $3.4 billion to buy BankDirect Capital Finance. The sale reflects opposing strategies by the two companies.

Pinnacle Credit Union in Atlanta, RVA Financial Federal Credit Union in Richmond, Virginia, and MUNA Federal Credit Union in Meridian, Mississippi, are combining into a single organization as a way to pool resources despite their lack of proximity.

Officials say the decision to call off the acquisition, first announced in January, was mutual.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is making it very difficult for Citigroup to fetch a price even vaguely close to the $12.5 billion it paid for the bank two decades ago. 

The acquisition of Central Financial, expected to close in the first quarter of 2023, would create a bank with more than $10 billion of assets.

The pending deal will help keep the Canadian bank's funding costs low, since Bank of the West has a strong core deposit portfolio, executives said Tuesday. BMO is sticking with its year-end timeline for closing the acquisition.

Credit unions in Georgia, Virginia and Mississippi plan to combine, creating an institution with $216 million of assets.

The Houston banks have set a new deadline of Nov. 1 to finalize their deal, marking yet example of banks' facing a longer-than-expected decision process by the Federal Reserve. CBTX's chief said last month the wait has been "very frustrating."

Barstow Community Credit Union, which is merging with the much larger Frontwave, has seen a string of losses in recent years.