Community banking
Community banking
- Texas
Guaranty Financial Group Inc., which raised $600 million in July from a group that included the financier Carl Icahn, will probably need another infusion, observers said. But finding investors will be harder this time around.
March 23 -
WASHINGTON — The federal government closed its sale of failed California thrift IndyMac Federal Bank (IDMCQ) to OneWestBank on Thursday, though the U.S. government will share some of the losses on the bank's single family residential loan portfolio.
March 20 - Texas
It has been a while since the Independent Community Bankers of America had a chairman who can commute to Capitol Hill in 90 minutes.
March 20 -
- Georgia
Facing capital depletion, Security Bank Corp. in Macon, Ga., is working to raise more, but its auditors question if it can survive.
March 19 -
When controversial accounting rules effectively jeopardized a pending acquisition, Investors Bancorp Inc. in Short Hills, N.J., got angry.
March 18 -
- California
Temecula Valley Bancorp Inc. joined the list of California companies warning that mounting losses and evaporating capital are casting doubt on their survival.
March 18 -
Flagstar Bancorp's staggering $200.3 million fourth-quarter loss might have seemed as bad as it could get.
March 17 -
CIB Marine Bancshares Inc. is facing bankruptcy because it owes more money on its trust-preferred securities than it can afford to pay.
March 16 - New Mexico
With the pending sale of its Colorado branches, the pressure to raise capital is off for First State Bancorp. in Albuquerque, but it still must contend with rising problem loans.
March 13 -
- Florida
Citing deteriorating credit quality, TIB Financial Corp., of Naples, Fla., said Thursday it lost $13.3 million in the fourth quarter, roughly double the amount it lost a year earlier.
March 13 - Iowa
In his first two and a half months as the chief executive of First Federal Bankshares Inc. in Sioux City, Iowa, Levon Mathews has cut expenses by trimming jobs and selling a branch.
March 12 - Colorado
Under regulatory pressure to raise capital, First State Bancorp. in Albuquerque is selling its Colorado branches to Great Western Bank in Watertown, S.D.
March 12 -
- New York
Park Avenue Bank in New York said Tuesday that its board members and other investors recently gave it a $25 million cash infusion.
March 11 - California
Manhattan Bancorp in El Segundo, Calif., is trying to revive the mortgage conduit business model practiced several years ago by Wall Street firms.
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