Iowa

The Federal Reserve Board has ordered bank holding companies in Iowa, Wisconsin and South Carolina to use whatever resources are available to them to nurse their ailing bank subsidiaries back to health.

WASHINGTON — Regulators closed a bank in Louisiana, and another in Iowa, late Friday to bring the year’s failure total to 90.

Heartland Financial USA Inc. in Dubuque, Iowa was approved for up to $81.7 million in the Small Business Lending Fund, the largest amount publicly announced.

Community bank letting a vendor keep its systems up to date on regulatory requirements.

West Bancorp. In West Des Moines, Iowa, said late Wednesday that it exited the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The $1.3 billion-asset company said it was able to redeem $36 million in preferred stock without having to borrow any money or issue stock.

A major investor in Meta Financial Group has grown impatient with the company's sagging stock price and is urging the Storm Lake, Iowa, bank holding company to sell itself.

A land deal in Iowa City, involving the city and a credit union is the focus of a legal battle.

Heartland Financial USA Inc. in Dubuque, Iowa, is combining the charters of two banks.

It was another busy — and costly — night for regulators in the Southeast. Of the nation's six failures Friday — bringing the year's total to 157 — three were in Georgia and one was in Florida, continuing the onslaught the two states have suffered in the crisis.

Heartland Financial USA Inc. in Dubuque, Iowa, has picked up a team of mortgage bankers that had worked at a failed Arizona thrift.

The Office of Thrift Supervision has put a halt to Meta Financial Group Inc.'s tax-refund-anticipation loans.

Heartland Financial USA Inc. of Dubuque, Iowa, reported a net 2009 loss of $9.2 million for common shareholders, 200% larger than the 2008 loss.

WASHINGTON — Federal and state regulators shut five banks in Iowa, Missouri, Arizona and Illinois late Friday, raising the number of failures this year to 89.

Federal regulators have given the struggling First Federal Bankshares Inc. in Sioux City, Iowa, until the end of September to raise the capital levels at its Vantus Bank unit.

First Federal Bankshares Inc. in Sioux City, Iowa, is running out of time to raise capital, and now it also needs to find a chief executive.

As it prepares to report an anomalous quarterly loss, West Bancorp. Inc. in West Des Moines is searching for a new chief executive officer.