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Article: INTERWEST TO ACQUIRE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BANK DEAL VALUED AT $61 MILLION.(Business)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 16, 1998
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InterWest Bancorp., in a deal pushing it further into commercial banking and the Puget Sound-area market, said yesterday it will acquire Seattle's Pacific Northwest Bank.
InterWest, based in Oak Harbor, will swap 3.95 shares of its stock (traded on Nasdaq) for each share of Pacific Northwest Bank's stock, which is not exchange-listed. The deal, worth $61 million at yesterday's closing stock prices, is expected to close in the second quarter.
The InterWest-Pacific Northwest combination neatly encapsulates a series of trends shaping banking in 1998:
-- It continues the blurring between what were traditionally thrift institutions, which stressed ...