The fourth quarter is often a time when banks try to tidy up their balance sheets for the coming year. As they step up efforts to sell problem loans, this quarter could be the big flush.

The fourth quarter is often a time when banks try to tidy up their balance sheets for the coming year. As they step up efforts to sell problem loans, this quarter could be the big flush.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Navy FCU said this morning it will open its 206th branch on Monday, its first inside the Pentagon, headquarters for the U.S. Department of Defense.

The $2.2 billion-asset Denver company said in a SEC filing that it'd be late reporting its Sept. 30 results because of issues regarding its valuation of mortgage-backed securities.

The $615.2 million-asset parent of Delaware County Bank and Trust is offering voluntary retirement packages under a plan to cut costs by $1 million.

Capital Bank rejected a higher per-share offer from another private-equity firm in favor of a $181 million bid from North American Financial for a majority stake in the company.

With consolidation picking up, an increasing number of investors are becoming activists, either by filing lawsuits over less-than-satisfactory deal terms or starting proxy fights ...

The $1.9 billion-asset company announced Thursday morning that it has one more day to satisfy the closing conditions of a recapitalization deal with its largest shareholder, David F. Bolger, and Donald Marron's Lightyear Capital LLC.

U.S. home foreclosures fell in October as banks put a freeze on auctions of homes in default to review loan documents in wake of a recent "robo-signing" controversy.

Integra Bank Corp. in Evansville, Ind. said Wednesday that its third-quarter loss widened by 70% compared with the second quarter, to $17.3 million.

Under an informal agreement with regulators, Green Bankshares Inc. in Greeneville, Tenn., has suspended dividend payments, even those owed to the Treasury Department.

NewDominion Bank of Charlotte, N.C., has hired a banking veteran to lead the company out of its consent order.

Cascade Bancorp in Bend, Ore., had until last Friday to secure $150 million of badly needed capital, and it remains unclear whether it got the funding.

A quest to tap local markets has inadvertently made Grandpoint Capital Inc. one of the more culturally diverse banking companies in the country.

RICHLAND, Wash. – HAPO Community CU plans to build its first Oregon branch after receiving regulatory approval to serve residents of Oregon’s Umatilla County.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – A state court ordered a halt yesterday to a controversial transaction that would allow the University of Iowa Community CU to buy 20 acres of land in nearby North Liberty for $1 to build a new headquarters as part of a planned 64-acre development.

Cascade Financial Corp., which received a government bailout, is among three small bank holding companies the Federal Reserve is scrutinizing.

Its $150 million investment in National Penn Bancshares Inc. seems counterintuitive given the Boyertown, Pa., company's strong commitment to commercial real estate lending as others put more emphasis on commercial and industrial loans.

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So the $3.8 billion-asset company has created a safeguard to protect $120 million of tax assets that could be used should the company return to profitability, which given its most recent quarterly numbers could be sooner rather than later.