Kentucky

The West Virginia company will pay a total of $118 million for Poage Bankshares and Farmers Deposit Bancorp.

Upon LMPOCU's liquidation, Commonwealth Credit Union assumed membership and all assets of the shuttered institution.

Forcht Bancorp in Corbin, Ky., has agreed to buy Watch Hill Bank for roughly $27 million in cash.

The company, which was flagged for two products, has been working with its regulators to determine the right amount to set aside.

Stock Yards Bancorp in Louisville, Ky., has named James Hillebrand as its next CEO when David Heintzman retires later this year.

The Indiana company agreed to pay $101 million for the $586 million-asset First Security.

When potential sellers are skittish, a merger pitch from a peer who’s been through it can make the difference.

Porter Bancorp in Kentucky spent years tackling credit and capital issues. As Limestone Bank, it will finally get back on offense.

An $378 million agreement to buy Farmers Capital will allow the West Virginia company to bridge a gap between Louisville, Ky., and Huntington, W.Va.

The company will merge with Kentucky Federal Savings and Loan by the end of this year.

The company will add a representative of Stilwell Group to its board. The investment firm, which has long criticized HopFed's leadership and strategy, agreed to support the company's recommendations at future annual meetings.

The credit union is Kentucky's largest and has experienced more than two decades of steady growth.

President and CEO Wendell Lyons will retire early next year, to be succeeded by current EVP Debbie Painter. Both have spent approximately four decades in the movement.

The credit union's deal for American Founders Bank would be the third credit union acquisition of a bank this year.

HopFed was ordered to pay the legal fees for Stilwell Group, which sued the bank after its directors passed a bylaw intended to keep the investor off its board.

Stilwell Group, an activist investor, is alleging that HopFed chief John Peck bought two properties from the then-chairman of the Kentucky company's compensation committee and that the deals were a conflict of interest.

Independent members of HopFed Bancorp's board sent a letter to Joseph Stilwell complaining that their largest investor had rebuffed several efforts by CEO John Peck to schedule a meeting.

Mark Schroeder has led the Jasper, Ind., company to six straight years of record profit by sticking to a simple model that emphasizes relationship banking and small, strategic acquisitions.

The largest shareholder at HopFed Bancorp in Hopkinsville, Ky., is calling on the company's president and chief executive to resign.

Some bankers are proud of making it through the financial crisis. Imagine doing that while also contending with a huge personal crisis. Karen Glenn, the chief executive of a Kentucky community bank, is a single mom of twin boys. She had just made it through a major health issue with one of her sons, when the other was diagnosed with cancer.