Nonperforming assets at City Bank in Lynwood, Wash., have ballooned to 44.3% of its total, but the company said Monday that it is encouraged by its success in securing home sales.

Sterling Bancorp in New York said Monday that its first-quarter earnings fell 43% from a year earlier, to $2.8 million, or 15 cents a share.

Finding the bottom line has become a little trickier with banking companies that received government infusions.

Robert Gandy 4th, a third-generation Texas banker who has worked in the industry since childhood, said he "always wanted to build something on my own, start something from the bottom up."

Regulators have ordered a $14 million-asset mutual thrift in Pittsburgh to raise capital, citing improper automated clearing house transactions that resulted in large losses.

The pace of credit unions converting to mutual savings banks has slowed in recent years, largely because some that wanted to switch charters encountered resistance from their members or their regulator.

CapitalSource Inc. of Chevy Chase, Md., said Thursday that it swung to a $104 million loss in the first quarter, from a $5.2 million profit a year earlier, as credit quality worsened dramatically.

Just a few weeks after announcing plans to sell some of its subsidiary banks, Capitol Bancorp Ltd. has its first suitor.

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Though its nonperforming assets continued to rise, TierOne Corp. in Lincoln, Neb., narrowed its first-quarter loss by 84% from a year earlier, to $9.8 million.

So close and yet so far away.

A few weeks after announcing plans to sell some subsidiary banks, Capitol Bancorp Ltd. has its first suitor.

Citing lower interest expenses, Capitol Federal Financial in Topeka, Kan., said its earnings for the quarter that ended March 31 rose 55% from a year earlier, to $18.1 million, or 25 cents a share.

After selling a foreclosed property for less than it expected, MBT Financial Corp. in Monroe, Mich., said it must revise the first-quarter loss that it reported last week.

Umpqua Holdings Corp. in Portland, Ore., said Tuesday that it has started an international banking division in San Francisco to serve small and midsize companies that do business overseas.

After four straight quarterly losses, Integra Bank Corp. of Evansville, Ind., has demoted its top executive.

City National Corp. in Los Angeles and Texas Capital Bancshares Inc. in Dallas plan to complete stock offerings this week to repay their government capital.

Peoples Community Bancorp Inc. in West Chester, Ohio, is in a do-or-die situation.

With nonperforming assets climbing to 7.23% of its total, BancTrust Financial Group Inc. of Mobile said Monday that it swung to a first-quarter loss of $6 million, from a profit of $2.7 million a year earlier.

It only took hours after regulators seized Silverton Bank for the first ripple to surface.