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NASB Financial Inc. in Grandview, Mo., reported its fourth-quarter earnings Tuesday after delaying the announcement to complete an evaluation of its investment in a land development company.

Horizon Bancorp in Michigan City, Ind., has completed its purchase of American Trust and Savings Bank of Whiting, Ind., the companies said Tuesday.

The competition for failed banks in Florida is so intense that the private-equity financier Wilbur L. Ross Jr. went looking for greener pastures. He found them in Michigan.

Five more banks failed Friday — including the subsidiaries of Bank of Florida Corp. — costing the government an additional $317 million.

K-Fed Bancorp in Covina, Calif., said Friday that it plans to offer additional shares of common stock to convert from a mutual holding company to a full stock company.

A Maine investment group has agreed to inject $60 million into Savings Bank of Maine in Gardiner as part of the thrift's recapitalization plan, the companies announced last week.

Five more banks failed Friday – including the subsidiaries of Bank of Florida Corp. – costing the government an additional $317 million.

Community bank M&A activity has awakened from a two-year slump with a pair of recent deals in the Southeast. Banks are reaching historically low prices, particularly in coastal markets like Florida, Georgia and California

Community bank M&A activity has awakened from a two-year slump with a pair of recent deals in the Southeast and historically low prices for banks, particularly in coastal ...

WASHINGTON — Even if lawmakers sign off as expected on a final regulatory reform bill before the July 4 recess, the battle over the legislation will just be a prologue to the longer and much more complicated fight over how the legislation will be implemented.

WASHINGTON — Even if lawmakers sign off as expected on a final regulatory reform bill before the July 4 recess, the battle over the legislation will just be a prologue to the longer and much more complicated fight over how the legislation will be implemented.

BankUnited Financial Corp. creditors, who are preparing to sue the bank holding company's former executives over the collapse of its Florida thrift, are urging a bankruptcy court to take their side in a dispute with federal banking regulators over who is entitled to the lawsuit's proceeds.

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More than two months after regulators issued what ordinarily are final warnings to Bank of Florida Corp., the company's banks have received a fresh set of marching orders.

How can healthy credit unions grow and contribute to the economy without access to secondary capital?

Sterling Financial Corp. in Spokane announced Wednesday that the Treasury Department has approved the two lead investors in its recapitalization effort.

Looking for stable, short-term investments, banks are starting to purchase corporate accounts receivable from small businesses through an online auction site called the Receivables Exchange.

Palmetto Bancshares Inc. Wednesday announced it is raising $100 million in capital through a New York private-equity firm and institutional investors to allow its bank unit to reach well-capitalized ratio levels.