Selling its Kansas branches helped Harrington West Financial Group Inc. hit a capital deadline this month. But the Solvang, Calif., company is far from mended.

The significantly undercapitalized Amcore Financial Inc. is warning that its bank might fail if it cannot come up with an acceptable capital plan within a few weeks.

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Because of accounting errors, VIST Financial Corp. in Wyomissing, Pa., is revising its results for the past four quarters.

Its investments in bank stocks prompted StellarOne Corp. in Charlottesville, Va., to widen its third-quarter loss by 16%, to $9.4 million, or 41 cents a share.

Horizon Financial Corp. in Bellingham, Wash., has warned that it may fail because the company and its bank unit are critically undercapitalized.

Nonperforming assets rose dramatically at Tamalpais Bancorp in San Rafael, Calif., forcing it to swing to a loss of $5M in the third quarter, from a profit of $1.5 million a year earlier.

Green Bankshares said "no thanks" to a major shareholder's unsolicited offer to inject up to $40 million of fresh capital into the company so it can buy failed banks.

Green Bankshares Inc. in Greeneville, Tenn., said "no thanks" to a major shareholder's unsolicited offer to inject $25 million to $40 million of fresh capital into the company so it can buy failed banks.

East West Bancorp's takeover of the failed United Commercial Bank not only catapulted the struggling firm to new prominence, but it also sets up a showdown in California between the two biggest Chinese-American lenders.

Fannie Mae has given more than three dozen credit unions until next week to accept an offer of pennies on the dollar for about $125 million of their mortgages that the defunct U.S. Mortgage fraudulently sold to Fannie.

The seizure of its $13 billion-asset United Commercial Bank on Friday suggests that even institutions the Treasury Department had the most confidence in a year ago are not all going to be winners in this down cycle — or, for that matter, survivors.

Officials announced the elaborate closing of San Francisco-based United Commercial Bank Friday night in a deal involving both U.S. and Chinese regulators and a buyer poised to assume the bank's operations immediately.

In an interview during the ABA's annual meeting in Chicago late last month, Johnson said that after a decade's worth of job losses in Michigan, his intent as chairman is to advocate for the kind of political change that will help jump-start the economy.

Alliance in Syracuse, N.Y., and Hancock in Gulfport, Miss., reported starkly different outcomes for their offensive stock offerings Friday.

Alliance in Syracuse, N.Y., and Hancock in Gulfport, Miss., reported starkly different outcomes for their offensive stock offerings Friday.

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Enforcement actions often call for banks to increase capital, but a recent order for Hanmi Financial Corp. shows regulators are getting pickier. They want more common equity.

During a period when more pressure than usual is on us to cross-sell products, the temptation to pile on the marketing is natural. But in some situations, saying "less is more" has real merit.

Bryn Mawr Bank Corp. in Pennsylvania has a deal to expand in Delaware County by buying First Keystone Financial Inc. in Media. The $1.2 billion-asset Bryn Mawr agreed to pay about $32.7 million for First Keystone.