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State officials in California have asked top online lending firms a series of probing questions regarding their compliance with laws and regulations dealing with referral fees, bank partnerships, fair lending and other sensitive issues.

Farmers National Banc in Canfield, Ohio, has agreed to buy Bowers Insurance Agency in Cortland, Ohio.

Pennsylvania state regulators on Friday closed the $103.3 million-asset First CornerStone Bank in King of Prussia, the third institution to fail this year.

Maria Vullo, still stuck in limbo as acting superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, is hindered from putting her mark on the agency until she gets confirmed. So a quiet guessing game is going on about how her supervisory philosophy will compare with her predecessor Benjamin Lawsky.

One of the last surviving black-owned banks in Chicago was rescued from its loan-related woes by a Ghanaian-American family.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss's Gemini Trust Company LLC has gotten a New York State regulator's blessing to trade another kind of cryptocurrency on its bitcoin exchange.

The $1.6 billion-asset Bar Harbor said in a press release Thursday that it will pay $143 million, or $17 a share, in stock for the $1.6 billion-asset Lake Sunapee.

National Capital Bank of Washington has a named Richard Anderson its new president and chief executive.

Midland Financial in Oklahoma City has hired a former Wells Fargo executive to run its finance unit.

Banc of California bulked up quickly in the aftermath of the financial crisis, first through acquisitions and now with organic growth. CEO Steven Sugarman discusses how his bank manages its exposure while preparing to cross an important regulatory threshold.

Short Hills, New Jersey, is among the richest communities in the U.S. The directors of a local savings and loan get paid accordingly.

Signature Bank in New York has added former New York state banking supervisor Derrick Cephas to its board.

Serving on a bank board is a tough gig, and the fact that a number of bank directors sit on the boards of four or more public companies is raising questions about whether they are too busy to be good watchdogs.

Prudential Bancorp in Philadelphia has a new chief executive.

Investors Bancorp in Short Hills, N.J., has agreed to buy Bank of Princeton in Princeton, N.J.

The $69 billion-asset company in Dallas said in a press release Tuesday that Karen Parkhill resigned on Friday to "pursue other opportunities." Parkhill, who had also been the company's vice chairman, had been with Comerica since 2011.

The First of Long Island Corp. in Glen Head, N.Y., plans a secondary offering of about $35 million of common stock.

Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Collinsville in Illinois is planning to raise at least $7.5 million as part of its conversion from a mutual to a stock-owned company.

Lola Hart, who oversaw the liquidation of the controversial CertusBank in South Carolina, has been hired as the chief accounting officer of Entegra Financial in Franklin, N.C.

Christopher Cline, a former Wells Fargo executive, has joined the management of a community bank in Vancouver, Wash., to help it build up its wealth management business.