Banks have a long history of hiring personalities to fill board seats. The practice fell out of favor during the financial crisis but is slowly experiencing a revival. Some appointees bring financial expertise to the table, while others deliver a certain cache to the bank.

A unit of EverBank Financial (EVER) has hired a former U.S. Bank sales manager as the Jacksonville, Fla., company continues to diversify its business.

Bank of the Ozarks (OZRK) in Little Rock announced earnings of the $19.3 million for the third quarter, up 2% from a year earlier, as low expenses more than offset rising credit costs.

The Federal Reserve Board has terminated a prompt corrective action against Sunrise Bank in Cocoa Beach, Fla.

More than 700 community banks failed a stress test performed by the New York data company Trepp, based on the proposed Basel III guidelines. Even if they wanted to do something about this problem, many would have a hard time raising capital in the private markets now.

The mutual holding company for Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB) will ask its members to waive their right to receive dividends from the White Plains, N.Y., company.

A surge in commercial and commercial real estate loans helped boost profits at Webster Financial (WBS) by 7% in third-quarter, to $44.4 million, from a year earlier.

Fed Gov. Daniel Tarullo calls for capping the size of banks, lawsuit proliferate, earnings roll in.

Two East Coast banks have shed their mutual holding company ownership.

Liability insurance companies generally argue allowing banks to receive insurance coverage for overdraft litigation settlements violates public policy and rewards supposed wrongdoing, but there typically is no explicit exclusion in a policy that justifies this and other go-to positions.

Team Capital has no plans to go public, but it is helping investors cash out by partnering with a New York broker-dealer that makes markets in illiquid stocks.

The $4.4 billion-asset bank holding company based in Dubuque, Iowa said Thursday it would buy Heritage Bank in Phoenix for $16 million in cash.

Many community banks could find themselves in the same dilemma as LNB in Ohio, which is weighing the pleas of activist shareholder Umberto Fedeli to repurchase its Tarp shares from private investors. It has to choose between paying higher dividends or a costly capital raise.

The Consumer Bankers Association has elected Iberiabank executive Bob Kottler as its new chairman for 2013, the group said in a press release Thursday.

Growth in business lending by commercial banks remained brisk in the third quarter according to preliminary data, but continued to slide from a recent peak.

The Sunshine State is on its third banking commissioner — Drew Breakspear — in slightly more than a year.

Viable restructuring alternatives to bank holding company debt do exist and will open the door to conventional M&A options or attract fresh equity.

Unable to find an acquisition or other expansion opportunity that it likes, Trinity Bank in Fort Worth, Texas, will pay a special onetime dividend to shareholders.

Flushing Savings Bank has filed an application with regulators to combine with its subsidiary, Flushing Commercial Bank, under a New York commercial bank charter.