PSCU Financial Services, a service organization that provides products and services to its roughly 1,500 member credit unions, announced Monday that it will begin issuing prepaid chip cards for several of its clients this summer.

EverBank this week was the latest buyer to take advantage of the ripening market for books of commercial and other types of credits. Wells Fargo, City National and others have announced similar moves.

Solera National Bank in Lakewood, Colo., has been freed from a consent order under which it had been operating for more than two years.

United Community Financial (UCFC) in Youngstown, Ohio, will take a $5.2 million loss on a group of loans to a single commercial customer.

Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI) in Costa Mesa, Calif., is considering raising up to $50 million in fresh capital so it can make more acquisitions if and when opportunities arise.

Roma Financial (ROMA) in Robbinsville, N.J., announced late Monday that its president and chief executive, Peter Inverso, will step down next year and that its board will form a search committee to find a replacement.

The favorable numbers behind EverBank's purchase of GE Capital's business lending arm are a blessing for investors who participated in the bank's disappointing public offering in May.

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Bank holding companies overcame a lackluster fourth quarter to earn a record $118.4 billion in wealth management income in 2011, according to a new report.

Montgomery County in Maryland is teaming up with five local banks on a new program designed to encourage more bank lending to small businesses.

FDIC loss-sharing deals are significantly down this year as failures get smaller, bidders become more competitive and the economic situation improves.

Though bank deals have risen in Texas because of its robust economy and in California because of abundant capital, small Kansas banks are partnering because they worry about their viability as little guys.

Navy Federal Credit Union in Vienna, Va., has established a commercial loan participation program in which it will buy business loans from other credit unions that are nearing their cap on business lending.

Camden National Bank in Maine has agreed to sell a branch in Rockland, Maine, that it is buying from Bank of America (BAC) because of competition concerns raised by the Justice Department.

The thirst for greater clarity about capital spending and valuations is prompting bank buyers and sellers to flock to cash.

QCR Holdings (QCRH) in Moline, Ill., has repaid about a fourth of its money it received from the Treasury Department's Small Business Lending Fund Program as part of its effort to increase its tangible common equity.

Sterling Financial (STSA) in Spokane, Wash., is selling all of its Montana branches as it aims to become more efficient and improve its overall profits. Eagle Bancorp is buying the branches for $7.3 million.

Seeking to diversify following its public offering in May, EverBank Financial (EVER) in Jacksonville, Fla., announced Monday that it is buying a commercial lending unit from GE Capital for $2.5 billion in cash.

Historically low interest rates and weak loan demand have masked the long-term profit potential of core deposits. When (not if) the cycle turns, community banks' earnings power will reappear.

In a slow stretch for issuance of bank shares, companies looking to raise capital for acquisitions have come to the fore in offerings that have performed relatively well.