United Community Banks Inc. in Blairsville, Ga., said Thursday that its board has adopted a tax benefits preservation plan to protect the company from any unintended ownership change.

Crescent Financial Corp. in Raleigh, N.C., said late Wednesday that it is selling a majority stake to a bank holding company in return for a $75 million investment.

Iberiabank Corp.'s agreement to buy the much smaller Omni Bancshares in Metairie, La., would the Lafayette, La., bank's first deal in Louisiana in seven years and its first unassisted bank purchase since 2007.

Diebold Inc. announced Thursday that Union Square Federal Credit Union has chosen it for monitoring and other services.

Fiserv Inc. said Thursday that Georgia's Own Credit Union in Atlanta will use its Acumen account processing technology.

Southern regional-bank operator Iberiabank said it will buy Omni Bancshares for about $40 million as it looks to bolster its presence in the New Orleans area.

The $172 million-asset Pacific Valley Bank in Salinas said the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the California Department of Financial Institutions ended the order in mid-January.

With plans to sell its trust division, Bank of Florida Corp. is nearing dissolution.

On Tuesday, the Fed reported the formal actions it took against $242 million-asset American Bancorp. of Minnesota Inc. in Baxter, $1.2 billion-asset Eastern Virginia Bankshares Inc and its EVB bank unit in Tappahannock, $1.5 billion-asset Marquette Financial Cos. in Minneapolis and $541 million-asset National Bancorp Inc. in Schaumburg, Ill.

United Western Bancorp Inc., a holding company in Denver that is suing regulators to regain control of its failed thrift, has denied filing a quarterly report with the Office of Thrift Supervision.

Reality is setting in that the state that was among the first to crash during the real estate crisis is likely to be the last to escape.

The National Credit Union Administration on Wednesday shut down the $1.8 million-asset NYC OTB Federal Credit Union. It was the third credit union to fail this year.

SCBT Financial Corp. in Columbia, S.C., added $35 million in capital base to complement its acquisition last week of a failed bank.

Wilshire Bancorp Inc. of Los Angeles said late Friday that it had hired Jae Whan Yoo, who resigned abruptly from Center Financial Corp. of Los Angeles in January, as president and chief executive.

Bryn Mawr Bank Corp. in Pennsylvania said it has agreed to buy the private wealth operations of the Hershey Trust Co.

Four Oaks Fincorp Inc. in North Carolina is on the hunt for capital after a large fourth-quarter loss. The $950 million-asset company said its loss in the quarter widened from $1.7 million a year earlier to $19.4 million.

Iberiabank Corp. of Lafayette, La., said Tuesday that it has agreed to buy Omni Bancshares in Metairie, La., for $40 million in stock.

A lending cooperative that plans to help small banks compete for larger, high-quality loans has received a significant investment — and validation — from the global asset manager BlackRock Inc.

The somewhat inexplicable delay adds to the overall negative perception the SBA has often had, while compounding the belief that small-business help from the government is just lip service.

Pinpointing the geographic epicenter of the crisis is not a simple task. Viewed one way, California and Florida top the list. Viewed another, Puerto Rico and Nevada rank highest.