Intermountain Community Bancorp of Sandpoint, Idaho, said its fourth-quarter earnings rose 20.9% from a year earlier, to $2.8 million, because of strong growth in fee income and loans.

In a dismal fourth quarter for the banking industry, Texas was a bright spot.

Enterprise Financial Services Corp. in St. Louis said Kevin C. Eichner will step down May 1 as its president and chief executive officer to become the president of Ottawa University in Kansas.

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Treaty Oak Bancorp Inc. in Austin expects to save about $400,000 a year before taxes on regulatory filings as a result of its recent move to delist from the over-the-counter market, according to Jeff Nash, its president and chief executive officer.

Don Wilson, the president and chief operating officer for Amcore Financial Inc., has a broad plan to improve profitability at his Rockford, Ill., company.

First Community Bancshares Inc. in Batesville, Ark., would expand into Missouri with its recently announced deal to buy Goodman State Bank there.

Daniel P. Myers, the president and chief executive officer of Bridge Capital Holdings, says he is not rattled by the economic trouble hurting so many others in the industry these days.

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, the United Kingdom's second-largest banking company, said its full-year profits jumped 18% from a year earlier, to $14.5 billion, as it offset slow growth in its U.S. business and mortgage-related writedowns with asset sales.

Passumpsic Bancorp in St. Johnsbury, Vt., has announced a deal to buy Lancaster National Bank in New Hampshire for $12.8 million in cash.

In filing a long-delayed revision of its third-quarter earnings Thursday, Bank of Granite Corp. in Granite Falls, N.C., reported a net loss of $22 million, compared with a $4.6 million profit the year earlier.

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SunTrust Banks Inc. has agreed to sell First Mercantile Trust Co., a Memphis provider of retirement plan record-keeping and investment management services, to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.

MIDDLE ATLANTIC

MainSource Financial Group Inc. in Greensburg, Ind., said Wednesday that it has a deal to buy 1st Independence Financial Group Inc. in Louisville, Ky., for $37 million in cash and stock.

Provident Bankshares Corp. warned Wednesday that it expects to write down as much as $47.7 million this quarter because of a significant drop in the value of its investment securities.

Umpqua Holdings Corp. in Portland, Ore., has restructured its retail banking division and created six "super regions" for its Oregon, Washington, and California markets.