Basis of Presentation	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2016
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Basis of Presentation	Basis of Presentation Nature of Operations CommunityOne Bancorp, (“COB” or the “Company,” also referred to as “us” or “we” and our subsidiaries on a consolidated basis), is a bank holding company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina and incorporated in 1984 under the laws of the State of North Carolina. Through our ownership of CommunityOne Bank, N.A., or the “Bank,” a national banking association founded in 1907 and headquartered in Asheboro, North Carolina, we offer a complete line of consumer, mortgage and business banking services, including loan, deposit, treasury management, online and mobile banking services, as well as wealth management and trust services, to individual and small and middle market businesses through financial centers located throughout central, southern and western North Carolina. Our strategy is to grow the Company organically by focusing on meeting the financial needs of customers in our market area by providing a suite of quality financial products and services through local and experienced bankers and lenders located in branches and loan production offices in our customers’ local market. We also offer the convenience of online and mobile banking capabilities. In addition to organic growth, our strategy is to grow through merger and acquisition activity in our markets, should attractive opportunities present themselves. We define our market as communities located in North Carolina, as well as adjoining markets in South Carolina and Virginia. On November 22, 2015, we entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (“Merger Agreement”) with Capital Bank Financial Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Capital”), under which, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, COB will merge with and into Capital (“Merger”), with Capital as the surviving corporation in the Merger. Immediately following the Merger, the Bank will merge with and into Capital’s wholly owned bank subsidiary, with Capital’s bank subsidiary surviving the bank merger. The Merger is subject to, among other things, regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions. Shareholders of both COB and Capital approved the Merger on April 18, 2016. General In the accompanying consolidated financial statements, prepared without audit, all significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated. Descriptions of the organization and business of COB, accounting policies followed by COB and other relevant information are contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015 (the "Form 10-K"), including the Notes to the consolidated financial statements filed as part of that report. This quarterly report should be read in conjunction with the Form 10-K. In the opinion of management, the accompanying consolidated financial statements contain the adjustments, all of which are normal recurring adjustments, necessary to present fairly the financial position of COB as of June 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, and the results of its operations and cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Use of Estimates We have made a number of estimates and assumptions relating to the reporting of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period to prepare these consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("GAAP"). Actual results could differ from those estimates. Material estimates subject to change in the near term include, among other items, the allowance for loan losses (“ALL”), estimated cash flows of purchased impaired loans, the carrying value of other real estate owned ("OREO"), the carrying value of investment securities and the realization of deferred tax assets. Reclassification Certain reclassifications have been made to the prior period consolidated financial statements to place them on a comparable basis with the current period consolidated financial statements. These reclassifications have no effect on net income or shareholders' equity as previously reported. Recent Accounting Pronouncements Credit Losses - In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standard Board (the “FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2016-13, "Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments" as part of its project on financial instruments. The new standard introduces an approach based on expected losses to estimate credit losses on certain types of financial instruments. It also modifies the impairment model for available-for-sale (AFS) debt securities and provides for a simplified accounting model for purchased financial assets with credit deterioration since their origination. The adoption of ASU 2016-13 will be effective for the fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2019. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting the new guidance on the consolidated financial statements. Stock Compensation - In March 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update ASU 2016-09, "Compensation—Stock compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to employee share-based payment accounting" which objective is the simplification through the identification, evaluation, and improvement of areas of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for which cost and complexity can be reduced while maintaining or improving the usefulness of the information provided to users of financial statements. The areas for simplification involve several aspects of the accounting for share-based payment transactions, including the income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, and classification on the statement of cash flows. Some of the areas for simplification apply only to nonpublic entities. The adoption of ASU 2016-9 will be effective for the fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2016. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting the new guidance on the consolidated financial statements. Leases - In January 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, "Leases (Topic 842)" which increases transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. To meet that objective, the FASB is amending the FASB Accounting Standards Codification and creating Topic 842, Leases. This ASU, along with IFRS 16, Leases, are the result of the FASB’s and the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB’s) efforts to meet that objective and improve financial reporting. The Boards decided to not fundamentally change lessor accounting with the amendments in this Update. However, some changes have been made to lessor accounting to conform and align that guidance with the lessee guidance and other areas within generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), such as Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. The main difference between previous GAAP and Topic 842 is the recognition of lease assets and lease liabilities by lessees for those leases classified as operating leases under previous GAAP. The adoption of ASU 2016-2 will be effective for the fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2018. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting the new guidance on the consolidated financial statements. Financial Instruments - In January 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2016-01, "Financial instruments—Overall (Subtopic 825-10)," which requires all equity investments to be measured at fair value with changes in the fair value recognized through net income (other than those accounted for under equity method of accounting or those that result in consolidation of the investee). The amendments in this ASU also require an entity to present separately in other comprehensive income the portion of the total change in the fair value of a liability resulting from a change in the instrument specific credit risk when the entity has elected to measure the liability at fair value in accordance with the fair value option for financial instruments. In addition, the amendments in this ASU eliminate the requirement to disclose the method(s) and significant assumptions used to estimate the fair value that is required to be disclosed for financial instruments measured at amortized cost on the balance sheet for public business entities. The amendments in ASU 2016-1 are effective for us for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within those fiscal years. We are currently evaluating the impact of adopting the new guidance on the consolidated financial statements. FASB - From time to time, the FASB issues exposure drafts for proposed statements of financial accounting standards. Such exposure drafts are subject to comment from the public, to revisions by the FASB and to final issuance by the FASB as statements of financial accounting standards. Management considers the effect of the proposed statements on the consolidated financial statements of COB and monitors the status of changes to and proposed effective dates of exposure drafts. Other accounting standards that have been issued or proposed by the FASB or other standards-setting bodies are not expected to have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Basis of Presentation

Nature of Operations

CommunityOne Bancorp, (“COB” or the “Company,” also referred to as “us” or “we” and our subsidiaries on a consolidated basis), is

a bank holding company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina and incorporated in 1984 under the laws of the State of North

Carolina. Through our ownership of CommunityOne Bank, N.A., or the “Bank,” a national banking association founded in 1907 and

headquartered in Asheboro, North Carolina, we offer a complete line of consumer, mortgage and business banking services, including

loan, deposit, treasury management, online and mobile banking services, as well as wealth management and trust services, to

individual and small and middle market businesses through financial centers located throughout central, southern and western North

Carolina. Our strategy is to grow the Company organically by focusing on meeting the financial needs of customers in our market

area by providing a suite of quality financial products and services through local and experienced bankers and lenders located in

branches and loan production offices in our customers’ local market. We also offer the convenience of online and mobile banking

capabilities. In addition to organic growth, our strategy is to grow through merger and acquisition activity in our markets, should

attractive opportunities present themselves. We define our market as communities located in North Carolina, as well as adjoining

markets in South Carolina and Virginia.

On November 22, 2015, we entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (“Merger Agreement”) with Capital Bank Financial Corp.,

a Delaware corporation (“Capital”), under which, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger

Agreement, COB will merge with and into Capital (“Merger”), with Capital as the surviving corporation in the Merger.

Immediately following the Merger, the Bank will merge with and into Capital’s wholly owned bank subsidiary, with Capital’s bank subsidiary surviving the bank merger. The Merger is subject to, among other things, regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions. Shareholders of both COB and Capital approved the Merger on April 18, 2016.

General

In the accompanying consolidated financial statements, prepared without audit, all significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated. Descriptions of the organization and business of COB, accounting policies followed by COB and other relevant information are contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015 (the "Form 10-K"), including the Notes to the consolidated financial statements filed as part of that report. This quarterly report should be read in conjunction with the Form 10-K.

In the opinion of management, the accompanying consolidated financial statements contain the adjustments, all of which are normal recurring adjustments, necessary to present fairly the financial position of COB as of June 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, and the results of its operations and cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively.

Use of Estimates

We have made a number of estimates and assumptions relating to the reporting of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period to prepare these consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("GAAP"). Actual results could differ from those estimates. Material estimates subject to change in the near term include, among other items, the allowance for loan losses (“ALL”), estimated cash flows of purchased impaired loans, the carrying value of other real estate owned ("OREO"), the carrying value of investment securities and the realization of deferred tax assets.

Reclassification

Certain reclassifications have been made to the prior period consolidated financial statements to place them on a comparable basis with the current period consolidated financial statements. These reclassifications have no effect on net income or shareholders' equity as previously reported.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Credit Losses - In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standard Board (the “FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2016-13, "Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments" as part of its project on financial instruments. The new standard introduces an approach based on expected losses to estimate credit losses on certain types of financial instruments. It also modifies the impairment model for available-for-sale (AFS) debt securities and provides for a simplified accounting model for purchased financial assets with credit deterioration since their origination. The adoption of ASU 2016-13 will be effective for the fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2019. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting the new guidance on the consolidated financial statements.

Stock Compensation - In March 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update ASU 2016-09, "Compensation—Stock compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to employee share-based payment accounting" which objective is the simplification through the identification, evaluation, and improvement of areas of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for which cost and complexity can be reduced while maintaining or improving the usefulness of the information provided to users of financial statements. The areas for simplification involve several aspects of the accounting for share-based payment transactions, including the income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, and classification on the statement of cash flows. Some of the areas for simplification apply only to nonpublic entities. The adoption of ASU 2016-9 will be effective for the fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2016. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting the new guidance on the consolidated financial statements.

Leases - In January 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, "Leases (Topic 842)" which increases transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. To meet that objective, the FASB is amending the FASB Accounting Standards Codification and creating Topic 842, Leases. This ASU, along with IFRS 16, Leases, are the result of the FASB’s and the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB’s) efforts to meet that objective and improve financial reporting. The Boards decided to not fundamentally change lessor accounting with the amendments in this Update. However, some changes have been made to lessor accounting to conform and align that guidance with the lessee guidance and other areas within generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), such as Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. The main difference between previous GAAP and Topic 842 is the recognition of lease assets and lease liabilities by lessees for those leases classified as operating leases under previous GAAP. The adoption of ASU 2016-2 will be effective for the fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2018. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting the new guidance on the consolidated financial statements.

Financial Instruments - In January 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2016-01, "Financial instruments—Overall (Subtopic 825-10)," which requires all equity investments to be measured at fair value with changes in the fair value recognized through net income (other than those accounted for under equity method of accounting or those that result in consolidation of the investee). The amendments in this ASU also require an entity to present separately in other comprehensive income the portion of the total change in the fair value of a liability resulting from a change in the instrument specific credit risk when the entity has elected to measure the liability at fair value in accordance with the fair value option for financial instruments. In addition, the amendments in this ASU eliminate the requirement to disclose the method(s) and significant assumptions used to estimate the fair value that is required to be disclosed for financial instruments measured at amortized cost on the balance sheet for public business entities. The amendments in ASU 2016-1 are effective for us for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within those fiscal years. We are currently evaluating the impact of adopting the new guidance on the consolidated financial statements.

FASB - From time to time, the FASB issues exposure drafts for proposed statements of financial accounting standards. Such exposure drafts are subject to comment from the public, to revisions by the FASB and to final issuance by the FASB as statements of financial accounting standards.

Management considers the effect of the proposed statements on the consolidated financial statements of COB and monitors the status of changes to and proposed effective dates of exposure drafts. Other accounting standards that have been issued or proposed by the FASB or other standards-setting bodies are not expected to have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.