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Securian Financial Group of St. Paul, Minn., said Wednesday that it had received regulatory approval to write debt-protection contractual liability policies in Florida.

Carver Bancorp Inc. in New York is trying to raise its capital levels after receiving a cease-and-desist order from its regulator.

State Bank Corp. of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., cited credit costs and issues with deferred tax assets in posting a fourth-quarter loss of $2.9 million.

Peoples Bancorp Inc. of Marietta, Ohio, and Albina Community Bancorp in Portland, Ore., said their chief executives are leaving.

The Federal Reserve Board said it has reached a written agreement with BankVest Inc. of Castle Rock, Colo.

The Treasury Department expects to realize $25.6 million from its sale of warrants for common stock in Wintrust Financial Corp.

The $17.8 billion-asset company said Monday that it had reached a marketing agreement with Boston Celtics star Ray Allen, who also played at the University of Connecticut. Webster has a similar marketing deal with Jim Calhoun, who coached Allen in college.

After saving his Washington bank from failure through an ingenious bankruptcy strategy, Patrick Rusnak has been scooped up by an in-city competitor.

Pacific Capital Bancorp in Santa Barbara, Calif., earned $20.8 million in the fourth quarter in its first full quarter after a $500 million capital infusion.

Earnings at Community Bank Shares of Indiana Inc. increased 35.8% in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, to $1.4 million.

Bridge Bancorp in Bridgehampton, N.Y., said Tuesday that it has agreed to buy Hamptons State Bank of Southampton, N.Y., for $6.3 million.

Renasant Corp. took a gamble six months ago, promising investors it would buy a failed bank with their money or they would get it back. The $4.3 billion-asset company in Tupelo, Miss., has surpassed that expectation.

Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin Inc. in Madison said it had managed to keep its thrift adequately capitalized at yearend. The $3.6 billion-asset company reported a $14 million fiscal third-quarter loss late Monday, narrowing its loss by 4% in the period that ended Dec. 31, from a year earlier.

Shares of Clifton Savings Bancorp Inc. in New Jersey tumbled a day after it said its regulator would not approve its second-step conversion.

Heritage Financial Group Inc. in Albany, Ga., said Monday that it swung to a $922,000 profit in the fourth quarter from a $1.7 million loss a year earlier.

Though credit costs are subsiding at Dearborn Bancorp Inc. in Michigan, its bank has been undercapitalized for six straight quarters.

Texas Gulf Bank in Houston continued a management overhaul Sunday by rearranging several positions and naming Robert Greer as its chairman.

The Treasury Department has launched a public offering for the 1.6 million warrants for common equity it received from Wintrust Financial Corp. in Lake, Forest, Ill., under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Repeating a familiar pattern of recent years, banks failed Friday in Georgia and Illinois. Two were closed in Georgia; another, in Chicago, was the city's first failure of 2011.

NetSpend Holdings Inc. is launching a rewards program for its prepaid debit cardholders using a merchant-funded system provided by Cardlytics Inc.