Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania company has redoubled its outreach to low- and moderate-income consumers by partnering with Operation Hope on a down payment assistance program and naming a veteran banker to the newly created post of director of fair and responsible banking. But despite these efforts, history says Fulton is unlikely to escape punishment if the Justice Department finds that it violated fair-lending laws.

ACNB Corp. in Gettysburg, Pa., is planning to enter Maryland with its agreement to buy New Windsor Bancorp in Taneytown, Md.

PeoplesBank in York, Pa., has hired Charles T. Field as its chief financial officer. The $1.5 billion-asset bank said in a press release Tuesday the Field will also be treasurer of its parent company, Codorus Valley Bancorp.

Bay Bancorp in Columbia, Md., is defending itself against claims it should be held responsible for embezzlement that allegedly took place at a bank it recently bought.

The former chief executive of NOVA Bank in Berwyn, Pa., will serve more than two years in a federal prison for his role in a fraud scheme involving the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The Justice Department has widened its investigation of Fulton Financial’s mortgage lending practices to include four new units.

Customers Bancorp in Wyomissing, Pa., is raising another $52.5 million from the latest in a series of public offerings this year.

Malvern Bancorp in Paoli, Pa., is planning to open a commercial lending office in a new market.

F.N.B. Corp. in Pittsburgh will add the president and chief executive of Yadkin Financial to its board after buying the Raleigh, N.C., company.

Record revenue and a brief respite from merger-related costs helped boost quarterly results at F.N.B. Corp. in Pittsburgh.