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Western Alliance Bancorp. in Phoenix has agreed to buy Bridge Capital Holdings in San Jose, Calif.

Citizens Financial Group has hired Eric Aboaf as chief financial officer, as John Fawcett said he will retire from that position next month.

Joseph Stilwell hopes a fourth challenge against Harvard Illinois Bancorp is successful.

MSB Financial, the holding company of Millington Savings Bank, has filed to pursue a mutual-to-stock conversion.

Fauquier Bankshares in Warrenton, Va., has begun a search to find its next president and chief executive.

CertusHoldings in Greenville, S.C., has agreed to sell its small business finance unit to BankUnited in Miami Lakes, Fla.

Veritex Holdings in Dallas has agreed to buy IBT Bancorp in Irving, Texas.

Banc of California in Irvine got a shot in the arm from its acquisition of 20 Popular Community Bank branches in the fourth quarter.

Members of Chemical Credit Union in Clinton, Iowa, overwhelmingly voted to approve a proposed merger with DuTrac Community Credit Union, Dubuque, Iowa.

EL CENTRO, Calif. — Palm Springs Federal Credit Union said it intends to merge into Sun Community Federal Credit Union, here, which would create a combined credit union with $325 million in assets, $36 million in capital and more than 36,000 members.

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Faced with soon-to-be non-existent investment income in 2009, Greenville Heritage FCU had two choices: hike fee income, or completely rebuild its loan program.

DES MOINES — For the Iowa Credit Union League, it all comes down to alignment.

Community and regional banks should be subjected to simpler rules than very large banks, the chairman and CEO of the Buffalo, N.Y., company said. In fact, size is the wrong determinant for risk-based regulation, he said.

EagleBank in Bethesda, Md., priced a secondary offering of close to 2.5 million shares of common stock at $35.50 per share on Thursday.

A consumer lender with nearly 300 far-flung offices struggled to keep up with multiple compliance projects using email and Microsoft Project. Then it turned to collaboration software, and demanded some customized changes, that helped tie its many loose threads together.

When Mike Mercer spearheaded a special outreach campaign in Georgia, the name of that project sums up what he, and the credit union movement, have always sought to do: "Helping People Afford Life."

Farmers Capital Bank in Versailles, Ky., has been freed from a regulatory order.

The trade group's leader touted progress in areas such as qualified mortgages and flood insurance, but he also encouraged members to keep speaking out against overzealous supervision.

HomeTrust Bancshares created a special call center and encouraged tellers to invite ATM customers inside the branches to answer questions and to differentiate the company from Bank of America in terms of fees.

The $691 million-asset Howard will pay $10.1 million, or $5.09 a share, in cash and stock for the $226 million-asset Patapsco.