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Alliance in Syracuse, N.Y., and Hancock in Gulfport, Miss., reported starkly different outcomes for their offensive stock offerings Friday.

Alliance in Syracuse, N.Y., and Hancock in Gulfport, Miss., reported starkly different outcomes for their offensive stock offerings Friday.

Enforcement actions often call for banks to increase capital, but a recent order for Hanmi Financial Corp. shows regulators are getting pickier. They want more common equity.

Bryn Mawr Bank Corp. in Pennsylvania has a deal to expand in Delaware County by buying First Keystone Financial Inc. in Media. The $1.2 billion-asset Bryn Mawr agreed to pay about $32.7 million for First Keystone.

Georgia Bancshares Inc. in Peachtree City has agreed not to pay dividends or incur debt without Federal Reserve Board approval.

For months now, Central Pacific Financial has been aiming at a moving target in trying to raise capital. And after a staggering $183M third-quarter loss because of rising loan trouble, the target just moved again.

Despite posting its fifth consecutive quarterly loss, and its biggest one yet by far, Flagstar Bancorp Inc.'s new chairman and chief executive insisted the company could be a potential acquirer once it raises more capital.

Credit kept worsening at First State Bancorp. in Albuquerque last quarter — leaving the company undercapitalized and its bank unit only adequately capitalized.

Despite raising capital three times in the last 12 months, Macatawa Bank Corp. in Holland, Mich., needs more capital because of mounting losses.

CapitalSource Inc. of Chevy Chase, Md., said Monday that its third-quarter net loss widened 11.2% from the previous quarter, to $274 million, as it increased its loss allowance by 97 basis points, to 5.48% of commercial loan assets.

Donald Marron, whose Lightyear Capital LLC agreed to inject $40 million into Cascade, said that his team has met with roughly 150 management teams at midsize community banks in the past year.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. dusted off rarely used authority to charge the banks for the resolution costs of the other seven insolvencies — ultimately causing the $4.7 billion-asset Park National in Oak Park, Ill., and the $118 million-asset Citizens National Bank in Teague, Texas, to fail as well.

Charming Shoppes Inc. has closed on the sale of its private-label credit card portfolio to Alliance Data Systems Inc. for $166 million.

MasterCard Inc. said Monday that USAA Federal Savings Bank has signed up for its Integrated Processing Solutions debit platform.

MoneyGram International Inc. posted a narrower third-quarter loss thanks to stronger revenue than analysts expected.

Over a year after being hit hard by the takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, FBOP Corp.'s nine banks totaling $19B in assets were closed by the government Friday night.

Two years into the financial crisis, spreads have widened considerably, and Beal's buying is in overdrive. Its assets surged 135% from a year earlier, to $7.5 billion at June 30.

In reporting a $12.6 million third-quarter loss, Cascade Bancorp also announced it has a second regulatory order — private-equity firm willing to give it an infusion.

An unexpectedly high number of cash withdrawals made with payroll cards at its Allpoint automated teller machines drove Cardtronics Inc. into the black in the third quarter.

For the first time in more than two years, nonperforming assets at Atlantic Coast Federal Corp. in Waycross, Ga., went down.