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Fox Chase Bancorp Inc. in Hatboro, Pa., said the planned sale of a pool of problem consumer loans has fallen through and that, as a result, its total nonperforming assets were higher in the fourth quarter than it initially reported.

First South Bancorp Inc. in Washington, N.C., has tapped the chief financial officer at another North Carolina bank to be its next president and chief executive.

Madison National Bancorp Inc. said on Monday that Daniel L. Murphy, the co-chairman and chief executive of the Melville, N.Y., company, has died.

Longtime community bank investor Eric Hovde has traded Washington D.C. for Wisconsin in the hopes of taking up residence in the nation's capitol.

For a second time in three weeks, regulators have shuttered a bank that others were unwilling to acquire.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has ended a formal agreement with City National Bank of Florida.

Buoyed by strong top-line revenue growth and improved asset quality, the $1.2 billion-asset First Business Financial Services in Madison, Wis., reported record profits in 2011.

A year and a half after completing its recapitalization, Sterling Financial Corp. in Spokane, Wash., has been released from an enforcement order with the Federal Reserve Board.

Two California banks have repaid funds they received from the Treasury Department under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The first thing Michael Blodnick — the head of Glacier Bancorp Inc. in Kalispell, Mont. — looks at when considering buying another bank?

Joseph Stilwell is trying to gain seats on the mutual holding company's board with the solitary goal of getting the management team to sell.

Regulators have terminated a consent order with Magyar Bancorp Inc.'s banking unit after the New Brunswick, N.J., company reduced its nonperforming assets and increased its capital levels.

First Commonwealth Financial Corp. in Indiana, Pa., has named T. Michael Price as its president and chief executive.

Sierra Vista Bank in Folsom, Calif., is looking to start its fifth year with $6.5 million of new capital.

First Niagara Financial Group Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y., has shifted its small-business banking focus away from individual branches to a newly created business unit that will be solely dedicated to attracting and retaining small-business customers.

Roma Financial Corp. in Robbinsville, N.J., reported that its profit for 2011 rose almost 37% from a year earlier, to $7 million, because of loan growth and a lower loan-loss provision.

Savannah Bancorp Inc. in Georgia said that one of its bank has entered into a consent order with regulators and now must work to maintain capital levels and reduce problem assets.

Premier Financial Bancorp Inc. in Huntington, W.Va., reported that its fourth-quarter profit rose 5% from a year earlier, to $2.4 million, as operating expenses declined.

Patrick Gideon resigned as chairman of Reliance Bancshares Inc. in Missouri after objecting the company's decision to hire an outside consultant.

A Texas banking company formed two years ago to acquire distressed or failed banks is buying its first healthy bank.