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The Treasury Department said it expects to generate $2.9 million from the sale of warrants to purchase the common stock of First Financial Bancorp in Cincinnati.

BankAtlantic Bancorp Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said it hopes to raise up to $25 million of fresh capital through a rights offering to existing shareholders.

Two weeks after calling off a capital-raising effort, Tidelands Bancshares Inc. in Mount Pleasant, S.C., said it plans to reduce its size.

EverBank has thrived as one of the most profitable banks in Florida by becoming a dominant player in the online banking realm. Last week, though, the Jacksonville company made a detour into brick-and-mortar banking by acquiring three failed Bank of Florida franchises, snapping up 13 branches across the state and increasing its assets by 15%, to $11 billion.

Cascade Bancorp's lead investors are giving the Bend, Ore., company more time to find additional capital.

Center Bancorp Inc. in Union, N.J., said it will not launch a planned common stock sale "in light of current market volatility," according to a press release Tuesday.

NASB Financial Inc. in Grandview, Mo., reported its fourth-quarter earnings Tuesday after delaying the announcement to complete an evaluation of its investment in a land development company.

Horizon Bancorp in Michigan City, Ind., has completed its purchase of American Trust and Savings Bank of Whiting, Ind., the companies said Tuesday.

Five more banks failed Friday — including the subsidiaries of Bank of Florida Corp. — costing the government an additional $317 million.

K-Fed Bancorp in Covina, Calif., said Friday that it plans to offer additional shares of common stock to convert from a mutual holding company to a full stock company.

A Maine investment group has agreed to inject $60 million into Savings Bank of Maine in Gardiner as part of the thrift's recapitalization plan, the companies announced last week.

More than two months after regulators issued what ordinarily are final warnings to Bank of Florida Corp., the company's banks have received a fresh set of marching orders.

Sterling Financial Corp. in Spokane announced Wednesday that the Treasury Department has approved the two lead investors in its recapitalization effort.

After sitting on a mountain of capital for nearly seven years, Kearny Financial Corp. of Fairfield, N.J., announced late Tuesday that it has agreed to buy Central Jersey Bancorp for $72.3 million in cash.

Hanmi Financial Corp. of Los Angeles has finally found the capital it needs, but its source — an entity largely owned by the South Korean government — may give regulators pause.

Fidelity Southern Corp. in Atlanta said Tuesday that it plans to sell up to $57.5 million in new shares to raise capital partly for growth.

Horizon Bancorp. Inc. in Bradenton, Fla., is hoping a last-minute private placement will keep its critically undercapitalized bank from failing.

Oneida Financial Corp. of New York said it has received conditional regulatory approval to commence its second-step conversion from a mutual to a stock company.

NorCal Community Bancorp of Alameda, Calif., posted a $2 million first-quarter loss, compared with net income of $340,000 a year earlier.

Nine months after it unsuccessfully sought to raise capital in the public market, Hampton Roads Bankshares Inc. in Norfolk, Va., has persuaded private-equity firms to get on board.