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The $1.46 billion-asset company said in a filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission that L. Anderson Creel will resign at the end of the year.

Signaling its intention to continue growing in Florida, Stearns Bank in St. Cloud, Minn., has named veteran banker Tramm Hudson as the president of its Florida operation.

With many competitors eschewing the interest-rate-sensitive housing market, First PacTrust took the opposite tack, agreeing to pay $17 million for Gateway Bancorp.

The only CEO in the history of Kaiser Federal Bank in Covina, Calif., is stepping down at the end of this month.

Signaling its intention to continue growing in Florida, Stearns Bank in St. Cloud, Minn., has named veteran banker Tramm Hudson as president of its Florida operation.

The former chief executive of Community Link Federal Credit Union in Huntington, Ind., claims he was fired as head of the $20 million-asset credit union because he shared information with examiners for the National Credit Union Administration on potential conflicts of interest on the board and other regulatory violations.

Johnson Bank in Racine, Wis., has a new chief executive officer for the second time in less than six months.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s push into California is a blessing or a curse, depending whom you ask, but it is definitely having a competitive impact.

Upstart Opus Bank in Irvine, Calif., is embarking on an ambitious branch expansion plan to go along with is acquisition of a Seattle-area bank.

Two weeks after announcing plans to open its first retail branch in Los Angeles County, First PacTrust Bancorp Inc. in Chula Vista, Calif., has struck its deal to buy a bank there.