Capitol Bancorp Ltd. of Lansing, Mich., is making another run at an Asian-American bank.

Pentagon Federal Credit Union in Alexandria, Va., has formed a full-service real estate brokerage, PenFed Realty LLC.

Brookline Bancorp's deal to buy control of Eastern Finance LLC, a small finance company in New York that lends mainly to self-service laundries, is not as unusual as its sounds.

Terry R. Jorde, who today will become the chairman of the Independent Community Bankers of America, owes her enthusiasm for small banks partly to a potato farmer.

Cardinal Financial Corp. in Tysons Corner, Va., restated its third-quarter 2004 and 2005 and full-year 2004 results to correct mistakes in how it classified some loans and payments connected with its July 2004 acquisition of George Mason Mortgage Corp.

The Banc Corp. in Birmingham, Ala., announced Monday that it is buying Kensington Bankshares Inc. in Tampa for $71.2 million in stock.

It has been a rough few months for ITLA Capital Corp. of La Jolla, Calif.

Texas' two banking trade groups apparently will not be joining forces anytime soon.

Talk about strained relationships.

Bankers in the Gulf Coast region are pleased the Small Business Administration has decided to let them process and close disaster-relief loans, but some said they will keep pushing for a larger role in hopes of a faster recovery for the area.

First Bancorp in Troy, N.C., said Friday that it had revised its 2005 earnings and that it made nearly $2 million more than it initially reported.

Capitol Bancorp Ltd. in Lansing, Mich., has appointed Richard C. Houseworth, a banking industry veteran who spent 13 years as the superintendent of the Arizona Department of Financial Institutions, to lead its government relations efforts.

In a 7-to-0 decision, Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court ruled against the Pennsylvania Bankers Association and four banking companies that were seeking to block two credit unions from adopting five Philadelphia-area counties as their field of membership.

Federal regulators are worried about banks like First National Bank of Artesia in New Mexico.

The two banking trade groups in Texas are talking about merging, though observers say a deal is far from imminent and likely will not happen without a fight.

MIDDLE ATLANTIC

Pacific Capital Bancorp in Santa Barbara, Calif., said Wednesday that it expects income from its tax-refund anticipation loans to decline over the next few years as a result of a change in its contract with Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc.

West Virginia’s governor is expected to sign legislation this month that would limit the fees banks could collect on gift cards and force them to turn over unused gift card dollars to the state treasurer.