PremierWest Bancorp (PRWT) in Medford, Ore., has granted itself more time to persuade shareholders to approve a takeover by Starbuck Bancshares.

The anger against the country's biggest banks is ready to boil over, Harris Simmons, the chairman and chief executive of Zions Bancorp., warned Wednesday.

Pan Pacific Bank in Fremont, Calif., has snagged a small business lender from the Bay Area. The $113.3 million-asset bank said Thursday that Ron Barrett was hired as a vice president and manager of government-guaranteed loans.

State Bank Financial (STBZ) in Atlanta has lowered its 2012 earnings to address an accounting error in tied to loans it obtained from failed-bank deals.

Banks have been pillars of their communities and pillars of local architecture throughout American history. Several institutions today operate out of digs that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Here's a look at some of the most notable and elegant examples.

Impersonators of Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin (oddly) captured the sense of renewal at the ICBA conference in Las Vegas.

Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust in Coral Gables, Fla., is in talks with several potential buyers, the South Florida Business Journal reported in its online edition Wednesday.

The CFPB director received a frosty reception at the ICBA conference despite remarks designed to calm bankers' fears.

The midsize New York mortgage lender and the West Coast bank created to house the IndyMac assets are worlds apart in many ways, but their rumored deal is strange enough to work, experts say.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chairman gave an update on the agency's community bank work and said the agency is on target to reach a statutory minimum for insurance reserves.

Bank of Hawaii (BOH) has agreed to delay its exit from American Samoa for one year to give the territory time to recruit another bank.

Speaking at an industry conference, the Huntington CEO says banks can't use the low-rate environment, the slow economic recovery or the costs of regulation as excuses to cut corners and shortchange customers. "We have to set a higher standard."

Bankers at the trade group's annual conference want to focus on momentum, although many acknowledge lingering doubt about the future.

First Bancorp in Troy, N.C., has applied for regulatory approval to move its headquarters to Southern Pines, N.C.

Community Bank of Tri-County in Waldorf, Md., has named a new chief risk officer.

Bank holding companies saw a dip in wealth management income in the first three quarters of 2012, a new study says.

Over 40 million Americans are under- or un-banked. Operation HOPE Chief Executive John Hope Bryant discusses how banks can make customers out of this under-served market and do well by doing good in the process.

ST Financial Group in College Station, Texas, plans to buy a small bank near Dallas. The parent company of Spirit of Texas Bank has agreed to purchase Peoples Bank in Colleyville, which has $72 million in assets and two branches.

Bank of Astoria in Oregon plans to convert all of its branches to the Columbia Bank brand, nine years after the two lenders merged.

Focus Business Bank in San Jose, Calif., has hired a leader for its business banking team. Robert Gionfriddo has joined the $213 million-asset bank as its chief business banking officer, Focus said Tuesday.