On January 19, Independent Financial, a financial services company with 93 locations across Texas and Colorado, announced that construction has begun on phase two of the company’s headquarters in McKinney. The companies making the announcement...

Conroe-based Spirit of Texas Bancshares Inc., the holding company for Spirit of Texas Bank, announced that on January 8 it completed the previously announced sale of its Jacksboro location to Graham-based First State Bank. Under the...

Magnolia, Arkansas-based Farmers Bank & Trust has opened its first full-service branch in Paris. Located at 1375 NE Loop 286, the bank purchased and remodeled the former TEXAR Federal Credit Union building. The new branch...

Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based B1 Bank is opening a new branch in Frisco’s Hall Park, the city’s largest office development. According to The Dallas Morning News, the financial firm is leasing more than 6,600 square feet of...

Lubbock-based Peoples Bancorp Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Peoples Bank, announced the signing of a definitive agreement on December 30 to acquire Seymour-based Baylor Bancshares Inc. and its subsidiaries, First Bank & Trust and...

In mid-December, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) released the 2020 Community Banking Study, a new large-scale study on the state of the nation’s community banks. The study finds community banks played a critical role...

San Antonio-based Lone Star Capital Bank NA has entered into a purchase-and-assumption agreement for substantially all of the assets, deposits and certain other liabilities of Austin-based Business Bank of Texas NA. The acquisition is expected...

Henderson-based VeraBank announced on December 18 that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Carthage-based Panola National Bank. Established in 1983, Panola National Bank has two locations, Carthage and Marshall, and assets totaling $125 million....