Bank of the Ozarks (OZRK) in Little Rock, Ark., is planning to open a loan production office in New York.

Regulators are challenging banks’ relationships with disfavored businesses, citing the endlessly adaptable concept of reputation risk rather than law or regulation.

Two officers of an Arizona mortgage lender are going to prison for defrauding a Troubled Asset Relief Program recipient.

1st United, of Boca Raton, paid $5 million in cash to Enterprise's minority shareholders and transferred Enterprise's troubled assets, worth $40.8 million when the deal closed, to its majority owner.

EverBank Financial in Jacksonville, Fla., (EVER) announced Monday it is opening a commercial real estate lending office in Houston.

American Bank Center in Dickinson, N.D., has agreed to buy Community First Bank of Glendive in Montana.

The companies announced last week an agreement to merge Acacia into Stifel Bank and Trust, the investment bank and brokerage's $3.9 billion-asset bank. The terms were not disclosed.

As the Federal Reserve Board gets set to vote on a final package of Basel III capital rules at a meeting Tuesday, it remains unclear just how far regulators will go to placate community bankers outraged by the proposal offered last year.

Mutual thrift defections from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency should decline now that once-nervous bankers have gotten a chance to get familiar with the regulator.

BNC Bancorp in High Point, N.C., started making acquisitions in the Carolinas three years ago, with private-equity help. Now it can afford to take its time and digest while other banks feel pressure to buy.

The president and chief executive of Sierra Vista Bank (SVBA) in Folsom, Calif., has stepped down.

Frost Bank's Dick Evans discusses his strategy, in a highly competitive lending market, for competing on price without taking on undue risk.

Continuing its string of acquisitions in its home state, Prosperity Bancshares in Houston has agreed to buy FVNB Corp. in Victoria, Texas.

First PacTrust Bancorp in Irvine, Calif., has raised $50.9 million through a common stock offering.

A consortium of Mexican investors led by former Banco Popular executive Roberto Herencia has completed its recapitalization of Metropolitan Bank Group in Chicago, Crain's Chicago Business reported.

FNB United in Asheboro, N.C., announced Friday that its planned name change to CommunityOne Bancorp will take effect Monday.

Mary Lynn Lenz, who recently became CEO of Foothills Bank, was involved with the 2010 sale of Professional Business Bank in California.

A veteran banking regulator has been promoted to become the commissioner of Georgia’s Department of Banking and Finance.

Despite a drop in truth in lending lawsuits, industry executives fear that new regulations and the emergence of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could prompt a revival in disclosure-related lawsuits.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in May issued enforcement orders against eight banks and freed 14 others from prior orders as part of a series of actions released Friday.