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North Dallas Bank and Trust Co. reported that earnings jumped more than 33% in the second quarter from a year earlier. The bank said Friday that it posted net earnings of $1.5 million, or 58 cents a share, for the quarter, up from $1.1 million, or 44 cents a share, a year earlier.

Richard Fisher, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, said Wednesday that regulators in Washington need to provide "clarity" on future rulemaking to help ease fears by small businesses and corporations.

Fifth Third Processing Solutions LLC said Wednesday that it had acquired the assets of TNB Card Services from Town North Bank in Dallas.

The Houston ATM network operator said Tuesday that it would install 215 ATMs in the New York area that will bear the logo of the New York credit union.

There's a group of community banks flush with capital, unburdened by delinquent loans and busily expanding assets — at the expense of troubled kin. The de novo class of '07 and '08 fortuitously opened its doors just before regulators said Do Not Enter, but late enough in the game to realize strict loan standards were necessary to navigate the real estate recession. Now they're coming for troubled banks' lunch money.

Five years after it began offering financial services to its underbanked clientele, Rent-A-Center Inc. is renewing its commitment to the sector.

PNC Financial Services Group Inc. has struck an ATM branding deal with Cardtronics Inc. The Houston automated teller machine operator said Thursday that PNC's brand would appear on the money machines it operates at all of Hess Corp.'s 230 service stations in Florida.

Encore Bancshares Inc. of Houston has filed a shelf registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $75 million in capital.

As attacks against small-business bank accounts rise, an increasingly hot-button topic is who is responsible for the losses.

The Treasury Department announced it will auction off warrants today to purchase the common stock of Sterling Bancshares Inc. in Houston.

Deutsche Bank's private wealth management office in Houston has hired John T. McCauley, one of UBS Financial Services' top veteran managers, according to a statement from Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown.

Lured by the chance to raise capital and worried about the future of the Office of Thrift Supervision, a wave of mutual holding companies have received approval to convert to full stock companies.

Cardtronics Inc. swung into the black in the first quarter, driven by strong transaction volume growth.

Cool. Hip. Fresh. These words are rarely used to describe traditional retail banking. But that's how some experts have referred to Mango Financial Inc., a start-up targeting underbanked consumers. The company is raising eyebrows with its sleek, colorful flagship store in Austin, a plan to build similar outlets around the country, and a paid-membership model designed to encourage customers to use Mango over the long term.

While it is not unusual to see a bank exhort its employees to help lobby on legislation, USAA Federal Savings Bank has taken it one step further by enlisting its 7.2 million customers.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Monday said that it reached a settlement with T Bank of Dallas that directs the bank to pay $5.1 million to more than 60,000 consumers adversely affected by its relationship with a third-party processor and several telemarketers. T Bank also agreed to pay a $100,000 civil money penalty to the Treasury Department.

Aptys Solutions LLC said it is counting on changes to the automated clearing house system to help its mobile business-to-business payment system take off.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s board voted Tuesday to extend by six months its program offering unlimited deposit insurance for business accounts, a sign that it remains concerned about the health of community banks.

Cardtronics Inc. has agreed to manage Travelex Group's U.S. automated teller machine network.

Green Bancorp Inc. announced Monday that it will receive $115 million in fresh capital from a group of private-equity firms, positioning the Houston company to become a significant acquirer in Texas.