North Carolina

Bridge Capital Holdings Inc. in San Jose is opening a third loan office on the East Coast to lend to emerging technology companies.

ECB Bancorp Inc. will no longer buy the deposits and certain assets of seven North Carolina branches from Hampton Roads Bankshares Inc. in Norfolk, Va., after funding for the deal fell through.

First South Bancorp Inc. in Washington, N.C., has tapped the chief financial officer at another North Carolina bank to be its next president and chief executive.

Bank of the Carolinas Corp. in Mocksville, N.C., will be delisted from the Nasdaq after failing to maintain a market value of publicly traded shares of at least $5 million.

North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue said Tuesday that she has nominated Ray Grace to take over as the state's banking commissioner.

WASHINGTON – Joseph A. Smith, Jr., who will monitor the 49-state mortgage settlement with the five largest servicers, resigned Tuesday as North Carolina's bank commissioner.

Regulators have ordered the banking unit of AB&T Financial Corp. in Gastonia, N.C., to improve its asset quality and evaluate its allowance for loan losses.

The president and chief executive of First South Bancorp Inc. in Washington, N.C., is stepping down after more than three decades as its leader.

HomeTrust Bank in Asheville, N.C., will convert from a mutual thrift to a stock-owned bank in order to raise capital for future organic growth and possible acquisitions within North Carolina.

New Century Bancorp in Dunn, N.C., has agreed to sell two of its branches to Lumbee Guaranty Bank in Pembroke, N.C.

The bank's core overhaul touches almost every area of the bank, from security to CRM to mobile.

FNB United Corp. in Asheboro, N.C., has met the requirements for continued listing on the Nasdaq after completing a one-for-100 reverse common stock split.

Piedmont Community Bank Holdings Inc. in Raleigh, N.C., wants to up its ownership stake in Crescent Financial Corp. of Cary, N.C., and is giving Crescent shareholders more time to mull its offer.

Greystone Bank in Raleigh, N.C., is one small loan away from a rare voluntary liquidation.

Ed Willingham, president of the North Carolina company, was elected a director of the Richmond Fed.

The names of 18 former CapitalBank branches in South Carolina have been changed to Park Sterling Bank.

Bank of the Carolinas Corp. in Mocksville, N.C., said that its chief financial officer, Eric E. Rhodes, has resigned from the company.

Waccamaw Bankshares Inc.'s stock was delisted from the Nasdaq after the company said it could not complete its delinquent financial statements.

BNC Bancorp in Thomasville, N.C., announced Wednesday that it would close four of the 10 branches it inherited last month when it acquired the failed Blue Ridge Savings Bank of Asheville, N.C.

Four community bankers on the hunt for acquisitions warned prospective sellers that they will have little say in how much they get paid.