Unless Congress acts before Jan. 1, more than 4,200 farmers who have used Farm Service Agency loans for more than 15 years will be unable to get loans with federal guarantees. This is significant since farmers often take out operating loans each year to fund purchases of fertilizer and other supplies.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Advantis CU reopened its flagship, 12,380-square-foot branch in Belmont yesterday after an extensive, $2.2 million upgrade in structure and technology.

Community Shores Bank Corp. in Muskegon, Mich., said Monday that it is voluntarily delisting from the Nasdaq. Community Shores said in a press release that it expected to file the delisting with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Dec. 16, when it also will cease trading its common stock on the Nasdaq.

Center Bancorp Inc. in Union, N.J., said late Friday that two directors had resigned and that it planned to appoint an investment manager to the board.

First BanCorp on Monday said it rejected a takeover offer from Doral Financial Corp. last week in favor of a deal with the Treasury Department to bolster its balance sheet by raising capital.

The Federal Trade Commission announced Monday it has banned a deceptive advertising operation from the debt-relief business under a $28.2 million judgment settlement.

Internal Revenue Service agents and local law enforcement raided collection agency Maxwell, Turner & Associates Inc.'s office in Monrovia, Calif. on Friday and arrested two suspects for allegedly scamming local businesses out of millions of dollars in a telemarketing scheme.

VIENNA, Va. – Navy Fed plans to add another new branch today–its 22nd in the past two months–at nearby Colonial Heights, Va., to serve military personnel at Fort Lee.

UNIVERSAL CITY, Texas – Fast-growing Randolph-Brooks FCU plans to open seven new branches in the next two years.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Generations Community CU has agreed to sell its 70-year-old office building, the city’s former train station, to VIA Metropolitan Transit, which plans to build a new bus depot out of the historic structure.

Credit unions are facing the same lending challenges as banking companies, setting a pace to have their first full-year decline in 30 years, according to the latest data from the Credit Union National Association.

Gouverneur Bancorp Inc. in New York said Friday that net income rose 28.8% in fiscal 2010. The $147 million-asset company earned $1.6 million in the year that ended Sept. 30, or 74 cents a share, compared with $1.3 million, or 56 cents a share, in the previous fiscal year. Total assets rose 2.2%, to $147 million.

First BanCorp in San Juan, Puerto Rico, had cut the size of a planned common stock offering after securing a concession from the Treasury Department.

The Federal Reserve Board has entered into written agreements with four community banks and their holding companies.

Community banks are poised to revisit in 2011 many of the troubled loans they worked hard to restructure this year.

The Federal Trade Commission charged three debt-relief operations with making unsubstantiated claims to lure consumers nationwide into paying thousands of dollars in upfront fees, but failing to reduce credit card debts as promised, the agency announced Thursday.

Risk is a four-letter word in the banking world these days. “Don’t take any,” is the prudent answer for most financial institutions.

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People's United Financial Inc. in Bridgeport, Conn., has completed its purchases of LSB Corp. and Smithtown Bancorp Inc.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has decided that four banks started by Capitol Bancorp Ltd. should not bear financial responsibility for the failure of a Florida bank.