It put the value of the combined assets involved at $2.7 billion.

Virtually all the other combined assets must go for the one spouse's Medicaid care.

Lane said the combined assets of the two companies would exceed $3.4 billion.

Together the banks would have $300 million in combined assets.

One category would cover small institutions whose combined assets amount to less than $800 million.

The combined financial assets of these people grew by 3 percent, to $26.2 trillion, the report said.

The merger would create a company with more than $40 billion in combined assets, making it the nation's 11th-largest bank holding concern.

Still, it would rival big American banks, with combined assets around $770 billion.

These were very big institutions with combined assets of more than $100 billion.

It will also change its relationship with financial planners whose clients have less than $5 million in combined assets at the company.