Regional banks

The San Antonio company also kept a lid on expenses in the second quarter, further boosting its bottom line.

The North Carolina regional will pay $30 million for the much-smaller Palmetto Heritage Bancshares.

The Ohio company said low unemployment is keeping business clients from expanding, while higher asking prices are forcing it to avoid bank acquisitions.

Prosperity Bancshares in Houston said that its earnings increased 19% from a year earlier as its efficiency ratio rose.

Vipin Gupta, who was chief information officer at Key Community Bank, will oversee strategy for information technology at Toyota Financial Services.

BankUnited in Miami Lakes, Fla., said that second-quarter earnings rose 36% as average loan and investment securities balances increased.

Florida created headaches for the Georgia company during the financial crisis. Increased discipline, and wholesale changes to banking, make the $3 billion purchase of FCB Financial less risky, CEO Kessel Stelling says.

In a 2015 enforcement action, the San Francisco Fed said it had identified problems with the Pasadena, Calif., bank’s BSA and anti-money-laundering compliance programs.

The $2.9 billion deal is the Georgia company's first traditional whole-bank acquisition since 2006. It is also the year's second-biggest bank acquisition.

Leroy Abrahams had previously served as president of the bank's North Central Alabama region.

Vend Lease, which is based in Baltimore, focuses on suppliers and vendors in the hospitality industry.

The bank also agreed to pay a $5 million fine to settle allegations over how it obtained consumers' consent.

The Birmingham, Ala., bank also saw lending decline in the quarter as strategic reductions in certain business lending lines offset gains in C&I and consumer.

The company has created a municipal group that will focus on nonpublic financing services at a time when loans to bond issuers are declining.

While the regulatory environment is more accommodating for big deals, many regionals still have their reasons for staying on the sidelines.

A tempered forecast overshadowed solid second-quarter results at the North Carolina regional bank.

The Cleveland company reported higher investment banking income and kept many expense items in check during the second quarter.

The Mississippi company said it has recorded most of the expected charge-offs tied to the last severe decline in oil prices.

Comerica faced aggressive questioning Tuesday about how it could use freed-up capital now that it’s no longer considered a systemically important financial institution. It won’t be the last small regional to get such a grilling this earnings season.

The Los Angeles company's second-quarter profit also benefited from last fall's purchase of CU Bancorp.