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The $13.1 billion-asset company said Monday that its earnings were up slightly from a year earlier, to $40.6 million, or 84 cents a share.

Pacific Commerce Bank in Los Angeles said Monday that it raised $5 million in a private placement this month.

The Cincinnati company will provide services including debit card processing, automated teller machine driving, fraud protection and card production to First New Mexico Bank of Deming, N.M.; Valley Bank of Commerce in Roswell, N.M.; and First State Bank of Mesquite, Texas. First New Mexico has 13 ATMs, Valley Bank has two ATMs and First State Bank has four ATMs.

With regulators catching flak for taking too long to close "zombie" institutions, the failure of United Western Bank seemed atypically quick.

First Hawaiian Bank said Friday that its fourth-quarter earnings rose 4% year over year, to $50.2 million. For the full year loans at the Honolulu company grew 3.3%.

Colony Bankcorp Inc. in Fitzgerald, Ga., is closing in on break-even quarterly results. The $1.3 million-asset company on Friday reported a fourth-quarter loss of $47,000, compared with a $14.6 million loss a year earlier.

Despite having private-equity commitments, the $2 billion-asset United Western Bank in Denver failed Friday. Regulators also closed banks in the Carolinas and Georgia.

F.N.B. Corp. in Hermitage, Pa., promoted a company insider to president. Vincent Delie Jr. was also named the chief executive of First National Bank, the $9 billion-asset company said Thursday.

Members of Louisiana Corporate Credit Union would not be required to obtain new capital after their corporate institution is merged into Corporate America Credit Union, under preliminary plans announced by the two corporates.

Improved credit helped 1st Source Corp. in South Bend, Ind., more than double fourth-quarter earnings from a year earlier.

Tennessee Commerce Bancorp Inc. in Franklin said its fourth-quarter earnings fell 56% from a year earlier, to $553,000, as noninterest expenses increased.

Prosperity Bancshares Inc. in Houston earned $32.8 million in the fourth quarter, up 7.3% from a year earlier, as credit costs subsided significantly, it said Friday.

Codorus Valley Bancorp Inc. in York, Pa., reported a slight dip in fourth-quarter earnings compared to a year earlier.

SVB Financial Group in Santa Clara, Calif., said that Ken Wilcox will step down as its chief executive to focus more on the company's global expansion.

The latest nixed deal, between Florida Bank Group Inc. in Tampa and Anderen Financial Inc. in Palm Harbor, brought the issue to the fore when the companies said last week that regulators are hesitant to approve "expansionary" deals.

Sticker shock over a recent deal in Texas has left the heads of some generally acquisitive banks uttering assurances they'd rather walk away than overpay.

Fourth-quarter earnings at Republic Bancorp Inc. in Louisville, Ky., were up 15% from a year earlier, to $4.4 million as credit costs fell.

Virginia Commerce Bancorp Inc.'s fourth-quarter earnings rose, but fell short of analysts' expectations.

The Federal Reserve Board said Thursday it reached a written agreement with Intervest Bancshares Corp. of New York.

The president and chief executive of Pinnacle Bankshares Corp. in Altavista, Va., is retiring. Robert Gilliam Jr., will leave in a "midyear 2011 time frame," the $303.5 million-asset company said Tuesday in a press release.