UPDATE 1-Hanmi Financial offers to merge with BBCN in $1.6 bln deal
November 23, 2015 at 17:18 PM EST
Nov 23 (Reuters) - Hanmi Financial Corp said it proposed to merge with BBCN Bancorp Inc in an all-stock deal valued at about $1.6 billion to create the largest Korean-American banking franchise in the United States.
