Lorain National Bank selected VINtek in December and began implementation earlier this year of the vendor's electronic lien and title technology.

Guaranty Bank, a $13.5 billion-asset Austin thrift, failed on Friday and was scooped up by a Spanish-owned bank.

Tower Bancorp says it will offer up to $50 million in shares as it joins a number of other companies in recent months taking advantage of increased investor interest in the stock market to raise cash.

Here's why fair-value accounting is not good for community banks.

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Appalachian Bancshares Inc. in Ellijay, Ga., is warning that it might be unable to survive. In belatedly filing its second-quarter results with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week, the $1.2 billion-asset company said that its bank unit is undercapitalized and that it is uncertain whether it can satisfy a regulatory order to raise capital.

Guaranty Bancorp in Denver is going out of its way to distance itself from Guaranty Financial Group, the Austin company that has said its failure is imminent.

Facing increased pressure to improve their data security, a growing number of small and midsize banks are looking for outside help.

Nearly out of capital, CIB Marine Bancshares Inc. in Pewaukee, Wis., is pursuing an unusual route for a bank parent: bankruptcy.

Guaranty Bank in Austin is set to be sold to Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA on Friday.

Federal regulators told bidders for Guaranty Financial Group Inc. that they have chosen a winner to take over the crippled Texas bank, according to people familiar with the situation.

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First Bancshares Inc. in Mountain Grove, Mo., and its First Home Savings Bank have signed regulatory orders with the Office of Thrift Supervision requiring plans to improve earnings and preserve capital.

National Consumer Cooperative Bank in Washington said Tuesday that its lenders had waived financial requirements on a credit line for 90 days in exchange for a higher interest rate.

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The proposed merger of two Pennsylvania companies with ties to Vernon W. Hill 2nd has been touted as the second coming of Commerce Bank. But more than nine months on, regulators have yet to bless the deal.

First Bancshares Inc. and its banking arm signed regulatory orders with the Office of Thrift Supervision to take certain measures to improve earnings and preserve the bank's capital resources, the company said in a release.

After four consecutive quarterly losses, the depleted Mercantile Bancorp Inc. in Quincy, Ill., is exploring ways to recapitalize itself.

By seizing the Montgomery, Ala., unit of Colonial BancGroup Inc. on Friday and selling it to BB&T Corp., regulators nullified a contract that Colonial had made to sell 21 Nevada branches to a blank-check company, Global Consumer Acquisition, analysts said. Without those offices, Global Consumer's other proposed acquisition may be hard to justify. The company had agreed to buy 1st Commerce Bank in North Las Vegas from Capitol Bancorp Ltd., largely for the charter.

Doing just one thing well is no longer good enough for payments processors serving community banks. That was the thinking behind Jack Henry & Associates Inc.'s deal to buy Goldleaf Financial Solutions Inc.