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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has once again pushed back the auction deadline on the $23 billion AmTrust servicing portfolio, National Mortgage News has learned.

Integra Bank Corp. has sold two Kentucky branches and more than $40 million in loans to Cecilian Bank as part of a plan to boost capital and reduce nonperforming assets.

Longtime Midwest banker Marty Adams is heading south on a rescue mission. The struggling TIB Financial Corp. in Naples, Fla., announced late Friday that Adams, former chief executive of Sky Financial Group, would join TIB to help it secure the $150 million it needs for a recapitalization.

WASHINGTON — While it has seemingly become routine for several banks to fail every week, only one institution was closed late Friday, $521 million-asset Washington First International Bank in Seattle.

The $200 million-asset bank announced Thursday that it will be rebranded American Perspective Bank after a settlement with an unidentified company in a trademark infringement case. That company agreed to shoulder a significant portion of costs associated with the California bank's name change as part of the settlement.

More banking companies are stacking up missed payments on their preferred shares held by the federal government, according to a Treasury Department report released Friday.

John Everets led a group of investors that rescued Savings Bank of Maine, which serves a tiny community an hour north of Portland, from the brink last month by spearheading a $60 million investment.

BankAtlantic Bancorp Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Thursday announced pricing for its $25 million rights offering. The $4.7 billion-asset company said it would sell shares to existing shareholders at $1.50 a share, a 21% discount to the stock's price on June 1, the day before the company announced the rights offering.

CNB Financial Corp. in Clearfield, Pa., expects to raise $27 million through a common stock offering.

Bank of Internet USA in San Diego is offering a loan portfolio program that few banks of its size are willing to hold: jumbo and super-jumbo mortgages.

Federal regulators have given PremierWest Bancorp in Medford, Ore., 60 days to come up with a capital plan even though the company raised capital in the first quarter.

WSFS Financial Corp. in Wilmington, Del., is preparing to raise as much as $150 million in fresh capital.

Northfield Bancorp Inc. in Avenel, N.J., plans to raise up to $463 million of capital by converting from a mutual holding company to a stock company.

As attacks against small-business bank accounts rise, an increasingly hot-button topic is who is responsible for the losses.

Mississippi's slower-paced banks have fared far better than their higher-flying Southeastern cousins. Yet the tortoise-beats-the-hare story may be spoiled if the oil spill leaks into the state's economy.

The owner of a bank in Oregon cannot pay dividends without prior Federal Reserve approval. The Fed on Wednesday released its agreement with PremierWest Bancorp, which owns PremierWest Bank in Medford, Ore.

The $3.2 billion-asset company announced late Tuesday that it had agreed to buy the privately held LaFollette First National Corp. for $16.1 million in cash, or $650 a share, about 1.05 times LaFollette's tangible book value.

Louisiana Bancorp Inc. in Metairie said it is repurchasing its stock for the eighth time since completing a mutual-to-stock conversion three years ago.

The Treasury Department announced it will auction off warrants today to purchase the common stock of Sterling Bancshares Inc. in Houston.

Three and a half years after selling Harbor Florida Bancshares Inc. at the top of the market, the company's former executives have decided it's time to buy.