Americas

With plans to sell its trust division, Bank of Florida Corp. is nearing dissolution.

On Tuesday, the Fed reported the formal actions it took against $242 million-asset American Bancorp. of Minnesota Inc. in Baxter, $1.2 billion-asset Eastern Virginia Bankshares Inc and its EVB bank unit in Tappahannock, $1.5 billion-asset Marquette Financial Cos. in Minneapolis and $541 million-asset National Bancorp Inc. in Schaumburg, Ill.

United Western Bancorp Inc., a holding company in Denver that is suing regulators to regain control of its failed thrift, has denied filing a quarterly report with the Office of Thrift Supervision.

Reality is setting in that the state that was among the first to crash during the real estate crisis is likely to be the last to escape.

The independent sales organization Paperless Transaction Corp. has added remote deposit capture services from Financial Transmission Network Inc. to its product offerings.

Cardtronics Inc.'s Allpoint surcharge-free automated teller machine network has added more than 1,000 machines as part of a long-term agreement with Aptus Financial Inc.

SCBT Financial Corp. in Columbia, S.C., added $35 million in capital base to complement its acquisition last week of a failed bank.

Wilshire Bancorp Inc. of Los Angeles said late Friday that it had hired Jae Whan Yoo, who resigned abruptly from Center Financial Corp. of Los Angeles in January, as president and chief executive.

Bryn Mawr Bank Corp. in Pennsylvania said it has agreed to buy the private wealth operations of the Hershey Trust Co.

Four Oaks Fincorp Inc. in North Carolina is on the hunt for capital after a large fourth-quarter loss. The $950 million-asset company said its loss in the quarter widened from $1.7 million a year earlier to $19.4 million.