Robert Barba

Old National Bancorp in Evansville, Ind., plans another round of branch consolidations as it integrates the failed Integra Bank.

AmericanWest Bank has struck its third deal this year, this time forViking Financial Services Corp. in Seattle.

For CrossFirst, the last three years have been filled with perseverance. It spent three years trying to raise capital and 13 months cleaning up a troubled bank before regulators would allow it to merge it with its de novo bank.

In striking its deal for First Louisiana National Bank, MidSouth Bancorp Inc. structured the deal to include a set number of shares, rather than allow the deal to be at the whim of the stock market.

Recapitalization efforts at First Mariner Bancorp may be in peril following the company's removal from a Nasdaq listing.

MidSouth Bancorp Inc. has long said that pricing has been to irrational in M&A. News that interest rates will stay low, however, may force an inflection point for sellers.

The $3.4 billion-asset company announced last week that it paid $600,000 for a ham — the grand champion ham at the 48th Kentucky Country Ham Auction, an annual charity event.

PVF Capital Corp. in Solon, Ohio, reported a loss of $2.6 million for its fiscal fourth quarter, a slight improvement from a year earlier.

First BanCorp in San Juan, Puerto Rico, has $525 million of capital committed. Now it needs its shareholders to show up and vote for a key part of its recapitalization plan.

Clark Street Capital has spent the last few years helping struggling banks shed problem assets. Now it wants to help banks comply with enforcement actions.

On Thursday, the Fed published written agreements struck earlier this month with the $119 million-asset Texas Bancshares Inc. in Snyder, Texas, and the $169 million-asset Flagship Financial Group Inc. in Eden Prairie, Minn.

With at least 30 banks in the Chicago area on the brink of failure, a crew of ex-LaSalle bankers have formed Front Street to start shopping on their old turf.

BankAtlantic Bancorp in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has promoted Charles Mohr to president of retail banking, the latest in a string of executive appointments the company has recently announced.

Regulators closed banks in Florida, Georgia and Illinois Friday, all in places were many banks have already met their demise. On Thursday, a bank failed in Pennsylvania, one of just a handful to fail in that state in the last few years.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency closed Lydian Private Bank in Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday. The $1.7 billion-asset bank is the 10th bank to fail in Florida this year.

To survive, capital-starved Community Banks of Colorado has struck a deal to sell 16 branches as well as its name.

MidSouth Bancorp Inc. in Lafayette, La., has agreed to buy a branch in Tyler, Texas, from Beacon Federal Bancorp Inc.

Investors Bancorp doesn't plan to stop with its deal for Brooklyn Federal. The Short Hills, N.J., mutual thrift would like to do "one or two more" before converting to an all-stock company.

First Financial Bancorp in Cincinnati has found a way to put some of its capital to work: a big branch deal with Flagstar Bancorp Inc.

Mercantile Bancorp once believed that its bank in sleepy Quincy, Ill. was not enough. Now, that bank might hold the key to the company's survival.