The Federal Reserve is requiring Idaho Bancorp to submit a plan to maintain sufficient capital.

Brookline disclosed last week that George C. Caner Jr. had resigned from the $2.5 billion-asset company's board of directors.

The closing of the sale of Harleysville National Corp. to First Niagara Financial Group of Buffalo has been pushed back.

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FirstMerit Corp. of Akron, Ohio, will need sharp elbows as it expands into the city of broad shoulders.

As reform moves forward, Congress should focus risk retention on securities and high-risk assets that have been proven to generate high defaults, market imbalances and disruptions.

President Obama now has an historic opportunity to make sure that the small group of governors that runs the Fed represents consumers and not just the banking industry.

[Re "Politics, Economics Clash in CUs' Bid to Lift Cap," March 8]Doubling the credit unions' member business loan limit won't increase small business lending or create jobs.

The Federal Reserve is requiring Idaho Bancorp, which operates the Idaho Banking Co., to submit a plan to maintain sufficient capital.

The Federal Reserve Board gave the $200 million-asset Horizon Bank a narrow time frame to raise capital or find a buyer.

The painful rescue of the financial industry may yield a surprise gift: a new securities market that could become a lucrative source of capital for banks.

Bank regulators issued 1,143 formal enforcement actions against banks and their holding companies last year, a new record and more than double the 2008 tally.

TIB Financial Corp. of Naples, Fla., said its fourth-quarter loss widened to $45.1 million from $13.2 million a year earlier.

Susquehanna Bancshares Inc. of Lititz, Pa., announced it is raising as much as $395 million in capital and said it could use some of the money to repay the Treasury Department.

With so many banks ailing, use of the Texas ratio, a quick way of assessing capital adequacy, has returned to the forefront of bank analysis.

A growing number of institutions worried about the Office of Thrift Supervision's future may switch to a national bank charter, putting even greater pressure on the agency's budget.

The most important idea raised at the bankers meeting was not to limit the $30 billion to community banks, since many face significant short-term financial problems (300 to 500 are expected to fail this year). Instead, make available up to half the $30 billion to the roughly 800 community development financial institutions, or CDFIs, nationwide that combine small-business expertise and a readily available pipeline of small-business borrowers.

The credit union industry may have its best chance in more than a decade to persuade Congress to double the amount of business lending it can do.

A group of Tribune Co. creditors sued the banks behind the publisher's 2007 leveraged buyout, claiming the $8 billion in loans they arranged for the deal doomed the company to bankruptcy.

With rates near all-time lows and costs still rising, it has become so difficult for credit unions to earn a positive spread for their members that Nevada Federal Credit Union is paying members to take their money elsewhere.