WORCESTER, Mass. – Webster First FCU will move its operations center next week from nearby Webster to an 85,000-square-foot building in this western Massachusetts city.

Even if the line to buy failed banks grows longer, Tom C. Nichols and Don E. Cosby say they'll stay on it.

ST. LOUIS – American Eagle CU has acquired a 29,600 square-foot former branch of Regions Bank and plans to renovate it for its own service center.

BEAUMONT, Texas – Education First FCU continued its year-long building spree with plans for a new training facility–along with the seven supermarket branches opened over the past 12 months.

When brainstorming over the winter about potential mascots for a children's savings program, First Arkansas Bank and Trust's marketing team considered the usual suspects: superheroes, Barney the dinosaur, cartoon characters and the like.

Heritage Commerce Corp. in San Jose said it no longer intends to buy two branches from Wells Fargo & Co.

Hanmi Financial Corp. in Los Angeles has withdrawn its application to participate in the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program after conferring with its regulators.

Some well-known Texas bankers say that they plan to start bidding on failed institutions now that they have a shelf charter from the Office of the Comptroller of Currency.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Campus USA Credit Union has started construction on a new 95,000-square-foot headquarters and adjacent 4,500-square-foot branch office in nearby Jonesville.

A year after announcing plans to pair a specialty finance business with a Chicago banking company, Castle Creek Capital LLC is giving up on the deal.

The future-of-branching debate — "brick-and-mortar is dead!" "no, expansion is near!" — is back on, but the two sides have more in common than they might think.

ATLANTA — If a CU determines it can't extend branch hours, it should consider turning to shared branching to boost convenience, according to one person.

CLOQUET, Minn. — To close the convenience gap between credit unions and banks that have branches on every corner, some credit union aren't seeking to add bricks, but instead add hours.

OKLAHOMA CITY — It's high noon for Frontier State Bank.

Carolina Trust Bank in Lincolntown, N.C., has a deal to buy Carolina Commerce Bank in Gastonia, N.C., for $5.5 million in stock.

Colony Capital LLC, a firm owned by the billionaire Thomas Barrack, and Stephen Ross' Related Cos. may seek to buy the assets of Corus Bankshares Inc., the Chicago lender facing a regulatory deadline to boost capital, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Recently, a bank has been running a national ad campaign that has strengthened my distaste of negative advertising.

Valley National Bancorp in Wayne, N.J., became the first banking company to make a partial repayment of Treasury Department funds, slicing the government's investment by a quarter Wednesday.

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