Old National Bancorp's purchase of Integra Bank, its largest competition, is not your usual FDIC failed bank deal, and could be considered subtraction by addition.

In a flat-fee model, most of the innovative energy goes into reducing costs rather than developing services that customers value.

John F. Novak, chief executive of Millennium Bankshares Corp. in Sterling, Va., is expected to step down at the end of this month.

The Buffalo bank worked too hard during the crisis years to put its efforts "in harm's way," Koelmel said.

Premier Financial Corp. in Huntington, W.Va., has received permission from the Federal Reserve Board to once again start paying down its debt to the U.S. Treasury Department.

An aggressive push by the Justice Department to investigate fair lending claims is prompting a backlash from bankers who claim the government is abusing its authority.

Buffalo bank's deal for 195 HSBC branches will require raising capital, divesting and integrating technology. Execs insist it’s all manageable.

An activist investor at Cardinal Bankshares Corp. in Floyd, Va., is protesting the company's latest executive hire.

Coming off the best quarter in its 101-year history, German American Bancorp in Jasper, Ind., appears to be readying itself for expansion.

OmniAmerican Bancorp Inc. in Fort Worth, Tex., said Monday that its net income for the second quarter more than doubled from a year earlier, to $1.2 million, due largely to lower deposit costs and 20% increase in interest-earning assets.

PNC Chief Rohr has "no interest" in Regions or SunTrust after RBC deal, Stifel Nicolaus analyst says.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has ordered three community banks hobbled by losses on real estate loans to raise fresh capital or merge with other banks.

The paper quotes First Niagara CEO John Koelmel as saying it will eventually have to do a capital raise to support the larger balance sheet. Antitrust issues may also arise, FT says.

HSBC, which has been scaling back its U.S. operations, struck a deal to sell 195 retail banking branches to First Niagara Financial for $1 billion in cash, the companies said Sunday.

Battered by loan troubles, Princeton National Bancorp Inc. Illinois announced after markets closed Friday that it lost $2.9 million, or 88 cents per share, in the quarter that ended June 30.

Integra Bank in Evansville, Ind., was closed by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, after fighting to survive for nearly two years.

After ripping off 11 straight quarters of losses, the Blairsville, Ga., company reported a second-period profit last week. That turned heads.

BankAtlantic Bancorp Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is heading west to try to drum up interest in its stock.

West Coast Bancorp in Lake Oswego, Ore., reported a profit of $4.6 million in the second quarter, a vast improvement over the same period last year, but a bit of a letdown when compared with this year's first quarter.

Growth rates have approached levels observed during the onset of the financial crisis in 2008.