BUYER: Royal Bank of Canada
SELLER: City National
DEAL VALUE: $5.3 billion
ANNOUNCED: Jan. 22
STATUS: Completed on Nov. 2
Royal Bank of Canada, led by David McKay, made a notable return to U.S. banking by
BUYER: KeyCorp
SELLER: First Niagara Financial Group
DEAL VALUE: $4.2 billion
ANNOUNCED: Oct. 30
STATUS: Expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2016
KeyCorp CEO Beth Mooney took a risk in agreeing to buy the $39 billion-asset First Niagara, which has been
BUYER: New York Community Bancorp
SELLER: Astoria Financial
DEAL VALUE: $2 billion
ANNOUNCED: Oct. 29
STATUS: Expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2016
Joseph Ficalora, CEO of New York Community, had
BUYER: BB&T
SELLER: National Penn Bancshares
DEAL VALUE: $1.8 billion
ANNOUNCED: Aug. 17
STATUS: Expected to close by mid-2016
BB&T may have
BUYER: BBCN Bancorp
SELLER: Wilshire Bancorp
DEAL VALUE: $1 billion
ANNOUNCED: Dec. 7
STATUS: Expected to close in mid-2016
BBCN in Los Angeles rejected an unsolicited takeover bid by Hanmi Financial, choosing instead to buy Wilshire in order to cement BBCN's position as the nation's biggest Korean-American bank. Kevin Kim (pictured), BBCN's president and CEO, would keep those posts, while Steven Koh, Wilshire's chairman, would fill the same role at the combined company.
BUYER: PacWest Bancorp
SELLER: Square 1 Financial
DEAL VALUE: $847 million
ANNOUNCED: March 2
STATUS: Closed Oct. 7
PacWest in Los Angeles
BUYER: Bank of the Ozarks
SELLER: Community & Southern Holdings
DEAL VALUE: $800 million
ANNOUNCED: Oct. 19
STATUS: Expected to close in the second quarter
Bank of the Ozarks' purchase of Community & Southern in Atlanta would bring together companies that
BUYER: F.N.B. Corp.
SELLER: Metro Bancorp
DEAL VALUE: $474 million
ANNOUNCED: Aug. 4
STATUS: Expected to close in February
Metro Bancorp in Harrisburg, Pa., had been facing
BUYER: MB Financial
SELLER: American Chartered Bancorp
DEAL VALUE: $449 million
ANNOUNCED: Nov. 22
STATUS: Expected to close in mid-2016
MB Financial has agreed to pay a decent premium to buy one of the few sizable banks based in Chicago. Mitchell Feiger, MB Financial's CEO,
BUYER: Yadkin Financial
SELLER: NewBridge Bancorp
DEAL VALUE: $446 million
ANNOUNCED: Oct. 13
STATUS: Expected to close in the second quarter
While the merger would create the