VANCOUVER, Wash. – iQ CU announced yesterday it has signed a multi-year agreement with FTSI for first and second line servicing on 28 Diebold ATMs.

Capital Bank reported a net second-quarter loss of $594,000, which was an improvement of 43% compared with a year earlier.

Atlantic Southern Financial Group Inc. reported a $4 million net loss for the second quarter, compared with a $23.8 million loss a year earlier.

The Medford, Ore., company raised $18.7 million in a rights offering in March and $14.6 million in a public offering in April. Yet it warned when announcing its second-quarter results late last week that it needs even more capital to comply with an enforcement action.

Having collectively made billions in consumer loans that have become delinquent at record rates since 2008, lenders now understand that relying on the credit score as a predictor of future consumer payment behavior is a bad business practice.

Citizens Republic Bancorp in Flint, Mich., reported a considerably slimmer second-quarter loss, compared to a year earlier, when it released its results late Thursday.

BOYERTOWN, Penn. – Diamond CU has signed an agreement with the Boyertown Area School District to open a branch in the Boyertown Area Senior High School.

ODON, Ind. – Crane FCU announced last week it has agreed to a request from the post commander at nearby Camp Atterbury to add a full-service branch and ATM at the camp’s Muscatatuck Urban Training Center.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – Fast-growing University of Iowa CU last week unveiled plans to build a new member support center in nearby North Liberty.

WASHINGTON — Federal and state regulators shut seven banks late Friday, pushing the failure total this year to 103. Though the pace of failures briefly slowed earlier this month, it appears to be picking up momentum again, as Friday's failures followed six last week.

First Place Financial Corp. in Warren, Ohio, reported that it lost $13 million in the last quarter and cited unfavorable market conditions in canceling a stock offering.

Encore Bancshares Inc. in Houston said Friday that it lost $12.7 million in the second quarter, compared with net income of $821,000 a year earlier.

Profits grew faster than credit problems among the first batch of community banks to post second-quarter results — another tentative sign the sector is recovering.

WASHINGTON — Federal and state regulators shut seven banks late Friday, pushing the failure total this year to 103. Though the pace of failures briefly slowed earlier this month, it appears to be picking up momentum again, as Friday's failures followed six last week.

Iberiabank Corp. of Lafayette, La., reported that its second-quarter net income rose 5% from a year earlier, to $8.7 million. Earnings per share fell 37%, to 33 cents a share, from 52 cents a share a year earlier, the $10.4 billion-asset company said Wednesday.

The $10.6 billion-asset company's earnings were driven primarily by a $51 million gain stemming from a failed bank acquisition completed in the quarter, MB Financial said Thursday.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – ORNL FCU said it has purchased nearly 38 acres in Horizon Center Business Park in west Oak Ridge where it plans to build a new headquarters for the $1.3 billion credit union.

Cardinal Financial Corp. of McLean, Va., posted a 120% jump in net earnings in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, outpacing analysts' expectations.

Valley National Bancorp in Wayne, N.J., said Thursday that second-quarter net income more than tripled from a year earlier. The $14.1 billion-asset company earned $33 million, or 21 cents a share, compared with $9.2 million, or 6 cents a share, exceeding analysts' expectations.

First Niagara Financial Group Inc. in Buffalo reported a 75% increase in second-quarter net income Thursday.The $20.5 billion-asset company boosted earnings to $20 million, or 10 cents a share, from $11.4 million, or 8 cents a share, in the second quarter of 2009.