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In recent weeks some bank stocks have been delisted for failing to meet the market's $1 minimum bid price requirement, and as Nasdaq cracks down, other banks are choosing to delist voluntarily before they get kicked out.

Prosperity Bancshares Inc. in Houston announced Monday that it would acquire the 19 branches, including deposits of $500 million and assets of $100 million, from First Banks for a 5.5% deposit premium, or $27.5 million.

WASHINGTON — Regulators seized five banks in as many states Friday, bringing the 2010 failure total to nine.

Capitol Bancorp Ltd. in Lansing, Mich., announced Monday that it has a deal to sell its 51% stake in Adams Dairy Bank in Blue Springs, Mo., to the bank's board of directors.

Mercantile Bancorp Inc. is shedding half its banks in a series of deals that illustrates the financial contortions some companies need to survive the recession.

Officials announced the elaborate closing of San Francisco-based United Commercial Bank Friday night in a deal involving both U.S. and Chinese regulators and a buyer poised to assume the bank's operations immediately.

Instead of reporting third-quarter results as expected Tuesday, Enterprise Financial Services Corp. in Clayton, Mo., announced a delay.

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.

Only three mutual thrifts have succeeded in going public so far this year, but the conversion market is starting to pick up, with two large deals on the way.

First Bancshares Inc. in Mountain Grove, Mo., and its First Home Savings Bank have signed regulatory orders with the Office of Thrift Supervision requiring plans to improve earnings and preserve capital.