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First PacTrust Bancorp Inc. in Chula Vista, Calif., has hired Marangal Domingo to serve as its chief financial officer.

NexBank in Dallas is expanding into correspondent lending for banks and mortgage brokers.

WASHINGTON — Premier American Bank in Miami picked up another failed institution Friday, assuming the operations of Coastal Bank in Cocoa Beach, Fla.

International Bancshares Corp. in Laredo, Texas, said Friday that first-quarter earnings rose 5% from a year earlier, in part because of lower credit costs.

A federal court agreed Thursday to let the National Credit Union Administration submit records under seal, bolstering its case for the April 15 conservatorship of Vensure Federal Credit Union.

Standard & Poor's said late Thursday that F.N.B. Corp. in Hermitage, Pa., has joined its S&P SmallCap 600 index.

The newly chartered United Resources Federal Credit Union in San Dimas, Calif., plans to start soliciting for up to $250 million in new capital, the corporate said on Friday.

First BanCorp in San Juan, Puerto Rico, increased capital ratios slightly in the first quarter, though they remain below the levels mandated by regulators.

It takes special circumstances for one bank to foreclose on another, but such an event took place this year, leading to last month's sale of Generations Bank to National Bancorp.

NetSpend Holdings Inc.'s first-quarter revenue rose 16% from a year earlier, to $80.8 million, as the activity on its prepaid debit cards increased and more of its customers began using direct deposit.

Citizens Republic Bancorp Inc. in Flint, Mich., has agreed to create two new housing programs in Detroit as part of a settlement with the Justice Department involving violations of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.

The choice of private equity's Edward Grebow to lead the union-owned Amalgamated Bank might still be considered an odd coupling — if the deficit-laden institution wasn't bleeding out profits and capital.

The FDIC has upped the ante in its push to force Republic Bank to stop making refund-anticipation loans, amending a notice of charges against the bank to include new violations.

The acquisition of a 90.1% stake in Green Bankshares would be North American Financial's sixth since the holding company was created last year to buy failed or struggling banks.

Many have argued that competitive pressures and increased regulatory costs will force a wave of consolidation in the banking industry. On Thursday, a prominent banker made a stark prediction about how many institutions will survive the next decade.

A federal judge has ordered the repatriation of $2.3 million traced to last year's collapse of St. Paul Croatian Federal Credit Union from a Macedonian bank as authorities try to determine if the funds were among those siphoned from the onetime $240 million-asset credit union.

Community Shores Bank Corp. in Muskegon, Mich., said Wednesday that its first-quarter loss widened to $734,000, from $440,000 a year earlier.

Tri-Valley Bank in San Ramon, Calif., said late Tuesday that it added three directors and elected a former Wells Fargo & Co. executive to chair its board.

A failed-bank acquisition lifted the first-quarter earnings of First Bancorp in Troy, N.C. The $3.4 billion-asset company's earnings rose 56% from a year earlier, to $5.3 million, according to a late Tuesday press release.

Brand Group Holdings Inc. in Lawrenceville, Ga., said Wednesday that it had raised $200 million in capital through a number of well-known private-equity groups.