An Unusual, Unsolicited, Unrequited Buyout Bid

If at first you don't succeed, go hostile? That's Porter Bancorp's strategy as the $1.7 billion-asset company pursues the $339 million-asset Citizens First Corp.

Regulators Shut Subsidiaries of Indiana's Irwin Financial

Closures bring the year's failure total to 94

The failures of $2.7 billion-asset Irwin Union Bank and Trust Co. and $493 million-asset Irwin Union Bank were estimated to cost the Deposit Insurance Fund a total of $850 million.

Kentucky's Community Trust to Post Profit Dip

Community Trust Bancorp said Friday that it expects to report its fourth-quarter earnings per share fell roughly a third from a year earlier, to a range of 38 to 40 cents.

For Small Firms, a Bank Switch Gaining Appeal

As bigger lenders tighten credit, small and midsize businesses are warming conceptually to striking relationships with community banks — and the banks appear receptive.

Going it Alone to Raise Trust-Preferred Capital

Peter Benoist, the president and CEO of Enterprise Financial Services, said his company chose the trust-preferred route because a stock offering would have been too dilutive, given the current stock price.

M&A Head Resigns at Republic of Kentucky

After joining Republic Bancorp as head of the company's acquisitions and corporate strategy, former National City executive Ted Parker has resigned ...

Court Upholds Preemption in Tax Lending Case

A court ruling against a two-year-old Connecticut restriction on tax refund anticipation loans may set a precedent for banks making these loans elsewhere.

Integra Selling Three Kentucky Branches

Integra Bank in Evansville, Ind., has struck a deal to sell three small Kentucky branches to Peoples Exchange Bank, a unit of Genbeach Co. in Beattyville, Ky.

Deal Done, MainSource Confronts Problem Assets

MainSource Financial Group's chief executive was not with the Greensburg, Ind., company at the time it struck a deal for 1st Independence Financial Group of Kentucky, but it is ...

Louisville's Republic Is Shopping

Republic Bancorp has never been much of a dealmaker, but with its stock price surging and its coffers full from record profits, the Louisville company is interested in buying banks.

Nonperformers Increase at S.Y.

S.Y. Bancorp in Louisville said Wednesday that its second-quarter earnings fell 3% from a year earlier, to $6.1 million.

Republic of Louisville Finds Refund Lending is Paying Off

Tax refund lending can be a high-risk business, but as Republic Bancorp Inc. in Louisville showed in the first quarter, it can also be a high-reward one.

Tax Loans Help Kentucky's Republic

Buoyed by growth in its tax refund anticipation loan business, Republic Bancorp of Louisville said Friday that its 1Q earnings more than doubled from a year earlier ...

Kentucky's First Financial Acquiring Indiana's FSB

First Financial of Elizabethtown, Ky., plans to acquire FSB Bancshares in Lanesville, Ind., for $14 million in cash.