MidSouth Bancorp Inc. in Lafayette, La., plans to enter the Dallas market after agreeing to buy five area branches from a bank being sold through bankruptcy court.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Pentagon FCU said it is closing its San Antonio branch later this month, part of a move to focus more on online and mobile services.

GLENDALE, Calif. – California CU has acquired its office building here for $33.8 million.

Colony Financial in Los Angeles plans to sell common stock in a public offering that could raise up to $284 million.

Old Line Bancshares in Bowie, Md., said Friday it has completed its acquisition of Maryland Bancorp in Lexington Park.

The board of Commonwealth Business Bank in Los Angeles said Friday it did not renew the employment contract of the bank's chief executive.

First Financial Holding has 90 days to provide the Fed with a written plan to improve oversight of risk management and anti-money-laundering compliance.

Capitol Bancorp said its annual report that it was notified on March 30 that it would receive a subpoena from the SEC's Chicago office concerning its third-quarter reporting.

The Justice Department said Friday that it will not challenge Hancock Holding's deal to acquire Whitney Holding of New Orleans as long as the companies sell eight branches.

Sal Marranca's experience as a bank examiner and a community banker prepared him for the task ahead: Serving as a bridge between the two sides at a time of growing animosity.

The $7.4 billion-asset company said its board has also approved a plan to sell about $293 million in substandard and nonperforming loans and $142 million in foreclosed properties.

A seemingly solid lending relationship can get dangerously big. Chris Myers, president and chief executive of CVB Financial Corp., learned this lesson the hard way.

Jack Henry & Associates Inc. is giving the end users of its online banking software extensive control over how their banks' services appear online.

Home Bancorp Inc. in Lafayette, La., has agreed to buy GS Financial Corp. of Matairie, La.

Park Sterling Corp. in Charlotte, N.C., said Thursday that it has agreed to buy Community Capital Corp. of Greenwood, S.C.

The 2,300-page bill will heap at least 10,000 pages of new regulations on community banks while doing almost nothing to solve the problems that brought us to financial panic in 2008.

MB Acquisition Bancorp agreed to buy $20 million to $30 million of newly issued common stock to help the $201.2 million-asset bank meet the minimum capital ratio requirements in its regulatory orders.

The $4.5 billion-asset Chicago company said Tuesday that it raised $25 million in a private placement with investors such as Harrison Steans, a former chairman of LaSalle National Bank; Jennifer Steans, the chairman of USAmeribancorp Inc. in Largo, Fla.; and Bruce Taylor, chairman of Taylor Capital. Investors also included other members of the Steans family and Prairie Capital.

First Defiance Financial Corp. in Defiance, Ohio, has $19.6 million of fresh equity. The $2.04 billion-asset company said Tuesday that it sold 1.6 million shares, including 208,800 shares for over-allotments, at $13.25 a share.

Center Bancorp Inc. in Union, N.J., said Wednesday that it promoted an insider to become its chief financial officer.