Urban Partnership Bank has spent nearly a year finding ways to continue ShoreBank's mission of banking the underserved while also avoiding the failed bank's fate.

Pioneer Bank in Dripping Springs, Texas, said it was cleared to receive about $3 million from the program, according to Monday's online edition of the Austin Business Journal. The $106.4 million-asset bank is expected to swap preferred stock for SBLF funds.

Hanmi Financial Corp.'s on-again, off-again relationship with South Korean banking giant Woori Finance Holdings Co. is back on again.

Opus Bank in Irvine, Calif., has received regulatory approval to buy Cascade Financial Corp. in Everett, Wash.

The Durbin amendment has caused more than just a stir in the banking world. Everyone has an opinion about who the winners and losers will be when it comes to limiting interchange fees.

Bank of the Carolinas Corp. said it has retained Hutchison Co., an investment bank in North Carolina, to help it look at strategic options to enhance shareholder value.

ENTERPRISE, Ala. – Navy FCU, which has been invading new markets at Army, Marine and Air Force facilities, will open another new branch here this morning to serve more than 16,000 Department of Defense personnel and their families assigned to Fort Rucker, home of the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence.

International regulators eased back slightly on a proposed capital surcharge for the largest institutions, setting a range below the expected 3%.

Georgia state regulators shut $103.7 million-asset Mountain Heritage Bank in Clayton on Friday, making it the 48th bank to fail so far this year and 14th failure in Georgia.

Georgia state regulators shut $103.7 million-asset Mountain Heritage Bank in Clayton on Friday, making it the 48th bank to fail so far this year and 14th failure in Georgia.

MB Financial Inc. in Chicago is selling the bulk of its problem real estate and construction loans to a California investment group that has been an active acquirer of failed-bank assets.

A major investor in Meta Financial Group has grown impatient with the company's sagging stock price and is urging the Storm Lake, Iowa, bank holding company to sell itself.

A major investor in Meta Financial Group has grown impatient with the company's sagging stock price and is urging the Storm Lake, Iowa, bank holding company to sell itself.

The entire banking industry has lost revenue as a result of the changes in overdraft rules, but the development is probably hurting community banks the most, analysts said.

The entire banking industry has lost revenue as a result of the changes in overdraft rules, but the development is probably hurting community banks the most, analysts said.

With five completed acquisitions and one pending, North American Financial Holdings Inc. is set to go public.

With five completed acquisitions and one pending, North American Financial Holdings Inc. is set to go public.

CSB Bancorp in Millersburg, Ohio, announced Friday that it is acquiring two branches in Wooster, Ohio, from Premier Bank & Trust.

MB Financial Inc. in Chicago is selling the bulk of its problem real estate and construction loans to a California investment group that has been an active acquirer of failed-bank assets.

Rejected by the Office of Thrift Supervision in its bid to become a 100% stock-owned company, New Jersey mutual holding company Clifton Savings Bancorp is taking its chances with its new regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.