CEO Succession Promises to Be Difficult
February 7, 2011 Many bank chief executives are nearing retirement, and a big test will be finding their successors.

Charter Financial Listens to Investors, Changes Conversion Plan
May 19, 2010 Charter Financial Corp. of West Point, Ga., has opted for a road less traveled after shareholders balked at its plan to...

Its Burden Lifted, Virginia's First Community Looks to Acquire
April 30, 2010 First Community Bancshares in Bluefield, Va., has turned the corner in dealing with its securities portfolio and is now...

PacWest Posts $60.5 Million Loss
April 21, 2010 After swinging to a first-quarter loss, PacWest Bancorp in San Diego — with a cleaned-up balance sheet — may be...

People's May Just Be Getting Started in Failed-Bank Deals
April 20, 2010 While the company's purchase of the failed $237-million asset Butler Bank in Lowell, Mass., wasn't the home run analysts had...

Bank of Hawaii: Higher Profit, New CEO
April 19, 2010 Bank of Hawaii reported Monday that 1Q earnings increased roughly 46%, to $52.7M, compared with a year earlier. The rise was...

Southwest of Oklahoma Reports Big 1Q Gain
April 19, 2010 Southwest Bancorp Inc. in Stillwater, Okla., said Monday that it had earned $3.3 million in the first quarter, more than 11...

Commerce of Missouri Profit Up
April 16, 2010 Commerce Bancshares Inc. in Kansas City, Mo., said its first-quarter earnings rose 43% from a year earlier, to $44.2 million.

Capital Starts to Flow Even in Toughest Markets: Georgia, Florida
April 15, 2010 These are not easy days for community banks in Georgia and Florida, but signs of hope are springing. Georgia Ameris Bancorp...

Operating Banks Become Preference in PE Deals
April 13, 2010 Many investors had hoped to jump directly into purchasing failed institutions from the FDIC, but the path of least resistance...