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The prepaid card marketer FSV Payment Systems Inc. is offering people savings accounts tied to its cards.

When it bought the failed bank and thrift units of Irwin Financial Corp. from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. last week, First Financial managed to get terms so attractive that others are taking notice.

A small Florida bank raised $70 million through an initial public offering Wednesday, in what is believed to be the first such deal in the banking sector in two years.

With as much as $196.6 million headed to its war chest, Old National Bancorp in Evansville, Ind., could be striking deals for failed banks soon.

With its stock trading under a dollar since June 23, Midwest Banc Holdings Inc. is in danger of being delisted.

Bank of America Corp. is progressing down the road to recovery, but its biggest obstacles still lie ahead.

CIB Marine in Pewaukee, Wis., is on track to turn more than $110 million of life-threatening debt into an abundance of capital and another shot at selling itself.

Bank of America Corp. has become the top provider of mobile banking services, according to data compiled by the market research company ComScore Inc.

The $1.8 billion-asset company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Monday that it has 60 days to submit a plan for maintaining sufficient capital, under a written agreement it signed Sept. 15 with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Metro Bancorp Inc. in Harrisburg, Pa., plans to sell $75 million of its common stock, in an offering that could help smooth its pending acquisition of Republic First Bancorp Inc. in Philadelphia.

The failures of $2.7 billion-asset Irwin Union Bank and Trust Co. and $493 million-asset Irwin Union Bank were estimated to cost the Deposit Insurance Fund a total of $850 million.

James Gutierrez, chief executive of Progress Financial in San Jose, believes he has found the key to reaching unbanked Hispanics — credit.

The failures of $2.7 billion-asset Irwin Union Bank and Trust Co., of Columbus, Ind., and $493 million-asset Irwin Union Bank, of Louisville, Ken., were estimated to cost the Deposit Insurance Fund a total of $850 million.

A year after the Troubled Asset Relief Program came along, a growing number of community banks the government spurned are on the brink of failure.

Far from any population center, Michael Jandreau, the chairman of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, knew even an enormous casino couldn't generate enough revenue for the South Dakota tribe. So he did the next best thing: he bought a wealth management company, Westrock Group Inc. in New York.

As the tally of failed banks continues to grow, so does the list of institutions with similar names that have had to calm down confused customers and business partners.

Community Trust Financial Corp. in Ruston, La., is expanding into Mississippi. The $1.2 billion-asset company has a deal to buy the $65 million-asset Madison Financial Corp., which would add three branches in the neighboring state.

Michael E. Kelly, the billionaire who built FBOP Corp. by snapping up ailing banks around the country in the 1980s and 1990s, now may have to give up some control of this far-flung empire — or lose all of it.

Washington Federal Inc. in Seattle is raising $300 million of capital to support its growth and possibly make acquisitions.

FBOP Corp. of Oak Park, Ill., which is low on capital at five of its nine banks, has a written agreement with regulators requiring it to improve quickly.