Area financial institutions combine to form larger regional bank

A Georgia bank with four Augusta-area branches is combining with another bank to form a new financial institution holding $3.8 billion in assets.

Pinnacle Bank is finalizing a stock transaction with Morris Bank in an agreement announced recently by the banks’ respective holding companies.

The new bank, which will have a new “unified name and logo” before the transaction closes, will have $3.3 billion in deposits and $2.8 billion in loans, the companies said in a statement…

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