The Renton, Wash., company has yet to announce the results of Thursday's vote, but an activist investor believes his group has won and warns that First Financial could challenge the outcome. Stilwell is attempting to oust Victor Karpiak, the company's chairman and CEO.

Bank dealmaking is no place for vanity, MidSouth CEO Rusty Cloutier says. Sellers need to get real about their prospects, and buyers and sellers need to look beyond face value and short-term valuations, he says in a Q&A.

First Republic Bank in San Francisco is planning to raise $150 million through a preferred stock offering.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. confirmed its will buy the 26.5% stake in Archstone it doesn't already own for $1.58 billion, ending a high-stakes battle over the control of the apartment giant.

Two small Pennsylvania banks — First Priority Financial of Malvern and Affinity Bancorp of Wyomissing — have announced a deal that would create a 10-branch bank outside Philadelphia.

The acquisitive bank in Lafayette, La., benefits from having executives who have lived all over in their careers - but constant relocation can test a marriage, Chief Executive Daryl Byrd says.

Harvard Illinois Bancorp's management and board have prevailed in their proxy battle with an activist investor.

In a Harvard Business Review op-ed, ex-Citigroup and Bank of America executive Sallie Krawcheck provides a glimpse of how she'd run a bank if given the chance.

Citigroup Global Markets on Thursday bought $1.67 billion of complex residential mortgage assets from a Federal Reserve Bank of New York portfolio taken on during the 2008 bailout of American International Group, according to the New York Fed's website.

Bankers, investment bankers, investors and ex-regulators weighed in with their explanations for the slow bank-deals market and where it goes from here at American Banker's M&A Symposium this week.

Citigroup Inc. (C) is selling a stake in Turkey’s Akbank TAS (AKBNK) worth about $1.27 billion, according to terms of the offer obtained by Bloomberg News.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Corporate One FCU said this afternoon that members of Florida's Southeast Corporate FCU have approved the combination of the two, creating one of the biggest corporates in the country with $5 billion in assets.

Nearly a year after calling off a stock sale that would have sharply diluted the value of its shares, Independent Bank in Ionia, Mich., said it would instead raise capital by selling off a batch of branches.

With Dodd-Frank and a sluggish economy as background, M&A experts met in New York earlier this week and shared insights into the future of bank deal-making.

Prices garnered prior to the crisis have little in common with what banks are worth today or what they will likely be worth in the future. Yet boards and managers remain irrationally fixated on outdated, irrelevant valuations.

Cardinal Bankshares' yearlong battle with an activist investor ended with a deadlocked board, an ousted chairman and a lot of uncertainty. The biggest challenge for all parties is determining who is in charge.

Profits fell for the second consecutive fiscal quarter at the U.S. operations of Bank of Montreal (BMO) as loan run-off at new subsidiary Marshall & Ilsley squeezed margins.

The cost of financing leveraged buyouts is falling, and in some cases creditors — which include banks — are letting them borrow more of the purchase price.

State Street Corporation (STT) wants to bulk up in Europe and its chairman is telling investors that it is eyeing deals for the custody operations of the continent’s largest banks.

Dodd-Frank establishes U.S. financial stability as a critical hurdle for regulators to evaluate before approving future mergers and acquisitions.