Chris Cumming

Capitol Federal Financial in Topeka, Kan., reported lower quarterly profit as its interest income fell and compensation costs rose.

Business Bancshares in St. Louis has exited the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

A newly formed Bangladeshi bank, South Bangla Agriculture & Commerce Bank, has begun using Temenos' core banking software.

Porter Bancorp (PBIB) in Louisville, Ky., has picked Joseph Seiler to head commercial banking.

Zions Bancorp. in Salt Lake City is planning to raise up to $100 million through its online broker-dealer subsidiary.

First Financial Northwest (FFNW) in Renton, Wash., has been freed from an enforcement action.

BNC Bancorp (BNCN) in Thomasville, N.C., plans to buy back its Troubled Asset Relief Program shares from investors who bought them in a Treasury Department auction last summer.

HCBF will merge BSA Financial's $168 million-asset Bank of St. Augustine into Harbor Community Bank when the deal closes, the companies said Friday.

Jacksonville Bancorp is preparing to offer shareholders the right to buy $5 million of stock. The $565 million-asset company said Friday that it will give shareholders the right to buy stock for 50 cents a share, the same pricing of a $50 million private placement in that concluded last December.

Provident Financial Services (PFS) in Iselin, N.J., reported lower quarterly earnings as margins tightened and noninterest income fell.

Central Pacific Financial (CPF) in Honolulu reported a jump in first-quarter profit as its asset quality improved and it recorded a tax benefit worth nearly $120 million.

The chief credit officer of SVB Financial Group (SIVB) in Santa Clara, Calif., is moving to China.

Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM) in Brooklyn, N.Y., reported a small increase in quarterly profit.

Triumph Bancorp in Dallas was on the hunt for a cheaper and more stable deposit base and found it in National Bancshares, an Iowa company that needed common equity.

TowneBank (TOWN) in Suffolk, Va., reported record quarterly profit driven by mortgage-banking and insurance revenue.

Park Sterling in Charlotte, N.C., said it is on the hunt for bank acquisitions as it reported a record quarterly profit.

BBCN Bancorp in Los Angeles has hired a former chief executive of Hanmi Financial and Wilshire Bancorp to lead its bank.

Higher revenue and lower expenses lifted United Bankshares (UBSI) inn Charleston, W.Va., in the first quarter.

Oriental Financial Group (OFG) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is being rebranded as OFG Bancorp.

Monarch Financial Holdings (MNRK) in Chesapeake, Va., has made five executive promotions, including the appointment of a new chief credit officer