The $12.8 billion-asset company posted a loss of $818,000, or 1 cent a share, for the second quarter. The analyst estimate called for a 22-cent loss.

The Small Business Loan Fund, if approved, will not trickle down in any material amount to credit-starved small businesses.

The Treasury's CDFI Fund has ramped up its awards and is looking toward putting another $300M in capital into grants to nonprofit lenders for small lending and microlending.

The gap between long-term and short-term instruments has delivered less of a lift to banks than in the past, and lower asset yields may now be catching up with lower funding rates.

Capital Bank reported a net second-quarter loss of $594,000, which was an improvement of 43% compared with a year earlier.

Atlantic Southern Financial Group Inc. reported a $4 million net loss for the second quarter, compared with a $23.8 million loss a year earlier.

The Medford, Ore., company raised $18.7 million in a rights offering in March and $14.6 million in a public offering in April. Yet it warned when announcing its second-quarter results late last week that it needs even more capital to comply with an enforcement action.

Citizens Republic Bancorp in Flint, Mich., reported a considerably slimmer second-quarter loss, compared to a year earlier, when it released its results late Thursday.

WASHINGTON — Federal and state regulators shut seven banks late Friday, pushing the failure total this year to 103. Though the pace of failures briefly slowed earlier this month, it appears to be picking up momentum again, as Friday's failures followed six last week.

First Place Financial Corp. in Warren, Ohio, reported that it lost $13 million in the last quarter and cited unfavorable market conditions in canceling a stock offering.

Encore Bancshares Inc. in Houston said Friday that it lost $12.7 million in the second quarter, compared with net income of $821,000 a year earlier.

Profits grew faster than credit problems among the first batch of community banks to post second-quarter results — another tentative sign the sector is recovering.

WASHINGTON — Federal and state regulators shut seven banks late Friday, pushing the failure total this year to 103. Though the pace of failures briefly slowed earlier this month, it appears to be picking up momentum again, as Friday's failures followed six last week.

Iberiabank Corp. of Lafayette, La., reported that its second-quarter net income rose 5% from a year earlier, to $8.7 million. Earnings per share fell 37%, to 33 cents a share, from 52 cents a share a year earlier, the $10.4 billion-asset company said Wednesday.

The $10.6 billion-asset company's earnings were driven primarily by a $51 million gain stemming from a failed bank acquisition completed in the quarter, MB Financial said Thursday.

Cardinal Financial Corp. of McLean, Va., posted a 120% jump in net earnings in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, outpacing analysts' expectations.

Valley National Bancorp in Wayne, N.J., said Thursday that second-quarter net income more than tripled from a year earlier. The $14.1 billion-asset company earned $33 million, or 21 cents a share, compared with $9.2 million, or 6 cents a share, exceeding analysts' expectations.

First Niagara Financial Group Inc. in Buffalo reported a 75% increase in second-quarter net income Thursday.The $20.5 billion-asset company boosted earnings to $20 million, or 10 cents a share, from $11.4 million, or 8 cents a share, in the second quarter of 2009.

A regulatory maneuver rarely used since the savings and loan crisis has saved Family Federal Savings of Illinois in the nick of time.