Chris Cumming

Community & Southern Bank in Atlanta has hired its new president away from a larger Alabama lender.

Tampa-based Gries Investment Funds has moved a step closer to completing its first bank acquisition.

1st Capital Bank (FISB) in Monterey, Calif., has erased the "interim" from its chief executive's title.

Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB) is expanding its capacity to take on debt and has wrapped up a $100 million stock buyback.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has freed the Bank of Granite in Granite Falls, N.C., from an enforcement action.

NewDominion Bank in Charlotte, N.C., believes it is close to raising enough capital to shed a consent order.

Iberiabank (IBKC) in Lafayette, La., has uncovered an accounting error that forced it to restate nearly three years of financial data.

Rhoda Altom and Deborah Gavin will join the boards of Washington Banking and its $1.7 billion-asset Whidbey Island Bank in Coupeville, Wash., the company said Thursday.

Union First Market Bancshares (UBSH) in Richmond, Va., is set to begin a share repurchase program.

United Financial Bancorp in West Springfield, Mass., is closing a pair of Connecticut branches just months after buying them.

Darrell Green, an initial investor in the bank, enjoyed a Hall of Fame career with the National Football League's Washington Redskins.

Bank of American Fork in Utah held a retirement party Wednesday for an executive who has spent 45 years with the bank.

The deal-hungry Independent Bank Group in Mckinney, Texas, is planning to raise up to $92 million through an initial public offering.

Some think the Minnesota bank would be hard to sell, but if William Cooper got a deal done, he could make nearly $16 million.

Emigrant Bank in New York has received regulatory approval to sell branches to Apple Bank for Savings.

Federal prosecutors have charged Wilbur Tate, now of Dacula, Ga., with conspiracy to commit bank bribery, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program said Wednesday.

OceanFirst Financial in Toms River, N.J., has hired the former chief executive of Patriot National Bancorp as its president.

Summit State Bank (SSBI) in Santa Rosa, Calif., has added Brad Baker to its board.

Louisiana Bancorp (LABC) in Metairie has wound up one stock buyback program and is beginning another.

Khanh Vuong has been named senior vice president and chief risk and investment officer for the company, which owns the $2.9 billion-asset Kearny Federal Savings Bank.