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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.

A day after financial companies banded together to rescue ShoreBank in Chicago with a $140 million investment, two Republican lawmakers are asking President Obama about his involvement.

Charter Financial Corp. of West Point, Ga., has opted for a road less traveled after shareholders balked at its plan to convert to a fully public company.

The Treasury Department said it expects to make $5.4 million from the sale of warrants to purchase common stock of Valley National Bancorp in Wayne, N.J.

Two already troubled community banks recorded additional first-quarter losses this week in revising their results after re-evaluating problem loans.

The lifeline that ShoreBank in Chicago has been thrown by some of the nation's largest financial companies could turn out to have benefits for other community development banks.

As a similarly named neighbor was being taken over by regulators, First Midwest Bancorp Inc. decided to assert its strength.

Expansive, diverse and home to many wealthy people, Southern California is a tantalizing market for BNY Mellon Wealth Management.

Despite aggressive efforts to stay alive, Midwest Bank and Trust was closed late Friday by Illinois regulators. The failure of the Chicago-area bank came on a night when the FDIC ...

NASHVILLE — For community bankers trying to figure out how they will make money going forward, the next six months are pivotal. That is the time to acknowledge and fix asset-quality problems and line up capital to finance expansion when the economy recovers.

Bryn Mawr Bank Corp. in Pennsylvania has announced plans to raise about $25 million in capital as it considers acquisitions.

Bank of Granite Corp. of Granite Falls, N.C., said last week that its bank unit is undercapitalized.