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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.

Deutsche Bank's private wealth management office in Houston has hired John T. McCauley, one of UBS Financial Services' top veteran managers, according to a statement from Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown.

Community Valley Bank reported that total assets rose nearly 10% in the first quarter. Heading into its third year in business, the El Centro, Calif., bank said Friday that it expects to become profitable in 2010 based on growth in earning assets.

Tri-Valley Bank announced Friday that a private investor group has terminated a $6 million stock-purchase agreement.

By missing a sixth quarterly dividend payment, due in May under the Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program, a Southern California bank became poised to test how the government will treat repeat delinquencies in the program.

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators shut three more banks on Friday, including $2.8 billion-asset TierOne Bank of Lincoln, Neb., a struggling 103 year-old thrift.

First Place Financial Corp. has announced plans to raise $80 million in capital not only to become stronger but also to buy other institutions — including failed banks.

Lured by the chance to raise capital and worried about the future of the Office of Thrift Supervision, a wave of mutual holding companies have received approval to convert to full stock companies.

Virginia Commerce Bancorp Inc. in Arlington plans to raise as much as $150 million of fresh capital, according to a shelf registration statement the company filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The $5.1 billion-asset company, which has dual headquarters in Lansing, Mich., and Phoenix, said the agreement is with the local shareholders of its $95 million-asset Bank of San Francisco, which it chartered in 2005.