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Banks and PE Can Get Along, Hampton Roads Shows

CEO Douglas Glenn has won the patient support of Carlyle Group and other private-equity investors in the Virginia bank, and cleared the path for an important stock offering.
Hampton Roads Plans Capital Raise, Hires CEO
Playing Catch-Up Crushes Two Virginia Banks
Spurned by Public Market in ’09, Hampton is a PE Target Today
Mergers & Acquisitions

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Profits Fall at Most Home Loan Banks05:34PM ET

Liberty Bank in Iowa Selling Two Branches to Ames National Corp.03:59PM ET

United Group in Fla. to Acquire Large Stake in Citizens Bancorp01:55PM ET

CoBank Reports Record Profit in 201111:17AM ET

People's United to Close 15 Branches10:16AM ET

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Bankers' Lawsuit to Resurrect Dead Thrift Has Legs
Executives of the failed United Western, who sued the government a year ago to get their Denver thrift back, may be close to gaining documents that could demonstrate regulators should never have shut it down.
Regulation & Reform
Washington

Editor at Large Barbara A. Rehm
Rehm on TAG: Don't Extend It, End It
Bankers shouldn't complain about intrusive government regulation while begging Congress to extend unlimited deposit insurance on large transaction accounts.
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Regulation & Reform

Warburg Pincus managing director Daniel Zilberman
Bank Bets by Warburg Pincus Are Looking Good
The private equity firm employed a different strategy than many of its rivals that bought into financial institutions, managing director Daniel Zilberman explains. And it has the strategy for its next round of deals ready to go.
Mergers & Acquisitions

Ronald Paul, chairman of Eagle Bancorp
Community Bankers Push for TAG Extension
Many community bankers fear that if the Transaction Account Guarantee Program is eliminated, large depositors will move their money to megabanks seen as too big to fail.
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Regulation & Reform
Risk Management

Alan Levan, BankAtlantic's CEO
BankAtlantic May Raise More Capital if BB&T Deal is Delayed
The Florida company is looking at bringing in capital in case the sale of its thrift fails to go through by early April.
Mergers & Acquisitions

William Loving Jr., president and CEO at Pendleton Community Bank Inc.
Banker Panel Uses FDIC Forum to Push Back Against Congress
A group consisting mostly of community bank CEOs used the FDIC's first conference on smaller institutions to urge resistance against onerous legislation and common sense for regulation.

Acting FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg (Image: Bloomberg News)
Small Banks, Regulators Start to Break Ice Amid Chilly Relations
Executives hail new effort at dialogue and hold out hope for 'tiered regulation,' but the extent of actual reforms remains to be seen.
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Washington
Regulation & Reform

Tim Pettus, president of First Farmers & Merchants Bank
First Farmers' Pettus Takes a Bite Out of Crime in Tennessee Town
Tim Pettus, the president of First Farmers & Merchants Bank in Columbia, Tenn., says he is proud that the bank's donations to a nonprofit have helped turn around a crime-ridden part of town.
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