Americas

Prosperity Bancshares in Houston posted higher quarterly profit despite investor concern about the company's energy loans.

A small Georgia lender has reached a deal to avoid a threatened involuntary bankruptcy, though the resolution is likely to leave key legal questions on trust-preferred debt and bankruptcy unresolved.

OSHKOSH, Wis. — If three's a crowd, what's four? Even better, at CitizensFirst CU.

Huntingdon Valley Bank in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., and Victory Bank in Limerick, Pa., have called off a planned merger of equals.

First Horizon National in Memphis reported lower quarterly profits that were largely due to a dip in fee-based income.

First Citizens Banc Corp in Sandusky, Ohio, is changing its name.

ServisFirst Bancshares in Birmingham, Ala., which went public last spring, reported a 27% increase in earnings, to $15 million, in the fourth quarter. It also announced plans to expand into South Carolina.

Pinnacle Financial Partners posted strong fourth-quarter numbers thanks to loan growth centered around its Nashville and Knoxville markets in Tennessee.

Local bankers will try to pick up any business that could fall out as a result of the merger. And with one less bank to buy in Southern California, remaining franchises also may command scarcity value.

PacWest Bancorp in Los Angeles reported an increase in fourth-quarter profit, the second full quarter after its April acquisition of CapitalSource Bank, a commercial lender that targeted small and medium-sized businesses.