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CenterState Banks Inc. is merging three of its national banking subsidiaries in Florida by the end of the year, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

First Financial Bankshares Inc. in Abilene, Texas, said Thursday that it agreed to acquire Sam Houston Financial Corp. in a $22.2 million cash-and-stock deal.

Jason Gillespie, a senior vice president in the warehouse lending division of Southwest Securities FSB of Dallas, has become the second senior official to leave the unit within the past three weeks.

United Community Financial Corp. in Youngstown, Ohio, is setting the stage for a new leader.

City National Corp. in Los Angeles said it will raise as much as $300 million in senior notes so that it can extinguish more expensive debt issued late last year.

Under normal circumstances, Capitol Federal Financial in Topeka, Kan., would be wrapping up the process it began more than two months ago to convert from a mutual holding company to a stock company.

Banco Davivienda of Bogota, was given permission Tuesday to convert a subsidiary already in the U.S., Bancafe International, into an international branch in Miami.

Republic First Bank in Philadelphia is changing its name — to Republic Bank. The $934 million-asset unit of Republic First Bancorp Inc. announced the change Wednesday, as part of rebranding efforts following the March collapse of its deal to sell itself to Metro Bancorp Inc. of Harrisburg, Pa.

Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin Inc.'s primary regulator has approved, with conditions, its recapitalization plan after it aggressively sold branches and reduced assets to raise capital levels.

The Fort Lauderdale, Fla., company last week filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $125 million of common equity this year. BankAtlantic did not disclose when it intends to launch an offering.

First Federal of Lakewood in Ohio has agreed to acquire a competitor, Century Bank in Parma, Ohio. First Federal, with $1.2 billion of assets, would gain five branches and $135 million of assets from Century Bank.

At a time when calculated retreats are becoming more common — and more accepted — Tidelands Bancshares Inc. is a new kind of leader.

Bay Cities National Bank in Redondo Beach, Calif., said it has investment agreements for $460 million, enough to turn the struggling $273 million-asset bank into a regional institution.

Pacific Mercantile Bancorp said Tuesday that it has entered into agreements with its regulators to improve credit quality and boost capital.

The Austin community bank service provider BancVue said Tuesday it will offer electronic payment services from Total System Services Inc. to its financial company clients.

First National Bank of Omaha is offering a rewards program from Cardlytics that lets customers access merchant offers through First National's FNBO Direct online banking service.

The Austin community bank service provider BancVue has purchased the credit card portfolio of the failed Silverton Bank from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Indiana Business Bancorp in Indianapolis swung to a loss in the second quarter as its provision spiked. The $89.9 million-asset company reported a loss of $484,678, or 32 cents a share, after reporting net income of $37,907, or 3 cents a share, a year earlier.

Eastern Virginia Bankshares of Tappahannock said Friday that it is consolidating two branches in King William County.

The $4.6 billion-asset institution, which has acquired more than 20 Oklahoma banks since it opened in 1989, announced its third acquisition deal of the year Thursday.