Regulators have hit Woodbury Banking Co. with a consent order for weaknesses in the company's asset quality, capital, earnings and management.

A new Federal Reserve Board report refutes the claim by some that the Community Reinvestment Act and affordable housing goals of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac caused the mortgage crisis.

Old National Bancorp in Evansville, Ind., announced Friday that it is shuttering nine of the 52 branches it inherited when it took over the failed Integra Bank and will move the accounts to nearby offices.

Opportunistic community banks in south Florida have seen a dramatic increase in new customers because of a contraction of banks caused by failures and mergers.

Two more community banks have exited the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program with loans they received from another government fund designed to encourage small-business lending.

A small Silicon Valley bank that lends primarily to technology startups has opened a lending office in incubator space in Boston.

Twenty years ago I engineered the sale of Security Pacific Bank, at the time the nation's fifth largest bank, to Bank of America. On August 12, 1991, the day the deal was announced BofA's stock closed at $10.00. Today it closed at $7.65 a decline of 23% over the past two decades.

Community banks don't typically lead the high-concept branch pack, but this Maine bank is experimenting with new cash recycling equipment and self-service kiosks.

First Busey Corp. in Champaign, Ill., has received $72.6 million from the Small Business Lending Fund, the largest award to date since the Treasury Department began disbursing funds to community banks last month.

Clark Street Capital has spent the last few years helping struggling banks shed problem assets. Now it wants to help banks comply with enforcement actions.

The New York Stock Exchange has warned Flagstar Bancorp Inc. that its stock is in danger of being delisted because it has traded at an average of less than $1 for 30 consecutive days.

Lydian Private Bank's failure proved to skeptics that the private banking model is a toxic mix for banks.

On Thursday, the Fed published written agreements struck earlier this month with the $119 million-asset Texas Bancshares Inc. in Snyder, Texas, and the $169 million-asset Flagship Financial Group Inc. in Eden Prairie, Minn.

Broadway Financial in Los Angeles is planning to close two of its five branches as part of a broader plan to trim overhead and preserve capital.

Charles Taylor, the OCC's new deputy head of capital policy, comes from the Pew Project on Financial Reform, which has pushed for interventionist regulation of the sort the agency usually opposes.

Ag banks and superregionals will be on the rise, many community banks and branches will have disappeared, and three mini-financial crises will have occurred, a roundtable of experts said when asked to predict banking in 2036.

The industry's criticism of the agency does not apply when it comes to nonbank supervision.

Small banks continued to withdraw credit from small businesses in the second quarter, but data indicates that large banks opened up the spigot on small business credit cards.

Prepaid company NetSpend, which has struggled to grow since its successful IPO last year, is being increasingly talked about as an acquisition target.

It seems everyone in community banking knows the model needs to evolve, but few have any great ideas on how to do it. One thing does seem certain: standing still is not an option.