[3] On November 30, 2007, SCBT Financial Corp. completed its acquisition of TSB Financial Corporation and its bank The Scottish Bank, giving SCBT four Charlotte, North Carolina locations and a loan production office in Cornelius, North Carolina.

[6] The merger added coastal South Carolina branches to the Midlands and Upstate and gave the bank $8 billion in assets.

A former Kroger in North Charleston was converted and expanded in the 1980s for First Federal's back office operations, and it was large enough for the merged company, as other tenants moved out when the time came to do so.

[8] On April 27, 2017, SouthState Corp. agreed to acquire Park Sterling Corp. of Charlotte, North Carolina, for $690.8 million.

[11] On May 20, 2024, SouthState Corporation agreed to acquire Independent Bank Group, based in McKinney for approximately $2 billion in an all-stock transaction.