Americas

HF Financial Corp. in Sioux Falls, S.D., said Tuesday that it expects to revise its results for its fiscal year that ended June 30 downward by $500,000 to $1 million to reflect downgrades in its agriculture portfolio.

Community banks in New York City are building loan books by snagging small to midsize companies overlooked by big retail-focused rivals.

Richard Lashley, an activist investor known for pressuring underperforming banks to find buyers, has won a seat on the board of BCSB Bancorp Inc. in Baltimore.

John F. Novak, chief executive of Millennium Bankshares Corp. in Sterling, Va., is expected to step down at the end of this month.

An activist investor at Cardinal Bankshares Corp. in Floyd, Va., is protesting the company's latest executive hire.

Coming off the best quarter in its 101-year history, German American Bancorp in Jasper, Ind., appears to be readying itself for expansion.

OmniAmerican Bancorp Inc. in Fort Worth, Tex., said Monday that its net income for the second quarter more than doubled from a year earlier, to $1.2 million, due largely to lower deposit costs and 20% increase in interest-earning assets.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has ordered three community banks hobbled by losses on real estate loans to raise fresh capital or merge with other banks.

Battered by loan troubles, Princeton National Bancorp Inc. Illinois announced after markets closed Friday that it lost $2.9 million, or 88 cents per share, in the quarter that ended June 30.

Integra Bank in Evansville, Ind., was closed by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, after fighting to survive for nearly two years.