Alan Kline

U.S. Bank is letting customers who have lost income due to the state of Minnesota government shutdown skip one monthly payment on most types of loans without penalty.

Union First Market Bank in Richmond, Va., announced Monday that it has opened seven branches inside Martin's Food Markets in central Virginia.

Centrix Bank in Bedford, N.H., intends to tap the government's billion Small Business Lending Fund to increase its commercial lending and repay what it borrowed from the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Northeast Community Bancorp Inc. in White Plains, N.Y., is expanding its loan production office in Danvers, Mass., as part of a major push to increase its lending in eastern Massachusetts.

Regions Bank in Birmingham, Ala., is teaming up with person-to-person payments provider ZashPay to let its customers transfer payments to family members, friends and other individuals without ever having to write a check.

With the expansion, the $3.7 billion-asset Union First Market Bank now has 99 branches in Virginia, including 29 in Martin's stores.

Castle Creek Capital, a California private-equity firm, has invested $27 million in fast-growing NBC Holding Co. in New Orleans.

The Federal Reserve Board has given the troubled Commonwealth Bankshares Inc. in Norfolk, Va., until the end of July to either raise fresh capital or find a buyer.

A Florida holding company formed three years ago to buy troubled banks has struck its third deal in the Tampa Bay area.

Castle Creek Capital, a California private-equity firm, has invested $27 million in fast-growing NBC Holding Co. in New Orleans.

The Federal Reserve Board has given the troubled Commonwealth Bankshares Inc. in Norfolk, Va., until the end of July to either raise fresh capital or find a buyer.

A Florida holding company formed three years ago to buy troubled banks has struck its third deal in the Tampa Bay area.

Two of Massachusetts' oldest thrifts, Salem Five Bank and Stoneham Savings Bank, are teaming up to create a $3.1 billion-asset company that would have nearly 30 branches in the suburbs north of Boston.

Directors at Nara Bancorp Inc. and Center Financial Corp. will have a few more months to deliberate over the planned merger of the two companies.

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Wells Fargo & Co. announced Thursday that its insurance arm has acquired EDIFY LLC, an employee benefits consulting firm based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Independent Bank Corp. in Ionia, Mich., has called off a planned a public offering in which it had intended to raise up to $110 million of fresh capital.

Linda Nahra, the president and chief executive at Community West Bancshares in Goleta, Calif., has notified the company that she is stepping down at the end of the month to pursue another business opportunity.

The Japanese-based parent of Union Bank in San Francisco has restructured its U.S. operations in order to improve its efficiency and help it better identify expansion opportunities here.

ECB Bancorp Inc. in Englehard, N.C., is planning to raise $75 million in a private stock offering and intends to use a portion of the funds to exit the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program.