Hanmi Financial Corp. in Los Angeles reported a fourth-quarter loss of $100 million after a goodwill impairment charge of $102.9 million and a higher loan-loss provision.

An executive and two board members who were at Summit Bancshares Inc. in Fort Worth when it was sold in 2006 are getting back into community banking.

Bankers already monitor rivals’ loan activity through Uniform Commercial Code filings, but with competition for commercial loans becoming increasingly fierce, a California data-mining company has developed a service that simplifies the act of surveillance.

A consent order that Pennsylvania Commerce Bancorp Inc. in Harrisburg has signed with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency restricts insider dealings at the company, but analysts said it does not appear to be as "onerous" as the order against its bigger New Jersey namesake.

Shares of Omni Financial Services Inc. plunged Friday after the Atlanta company delayed its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings reports and said that it had discovered "lending policy violations and internal control deficiencies" in its inner city lending division.

It's not hard to find a bank under pressure in Florida, but Federal Trust Corp. of Sanford is struggling more than most.

Capital Corp. of the West in Merced, Calif., said it has filed its fourth-quarter call report with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco but that it would not release its full results for the quarter and full year until it completes a review of its operations.

Hanmi Financial Corp. of Los Angeles said it expects to post losses for the fourth quarter and the full year, because of a goodwill impairment charge of at least $70 million.

The serial acquirer Prosperity Bancshares Inc. of Houston has found another opportunity to bulk up in its hometown.

One casualty of the economy’s downturn has proven to be the goodwill held on banks’ balance sheets.

To the growing list of reasons many community banks’ earnings are suffering, add the declining value of their investments in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

NewBridge Bancorp, created in July through the merger of two North Carolina banking companies, said Thursday that it had lost $10.6 million in its first full quarter.

Millennium Bank N.A., a unit of Millennium Bankshares Corp., is selling its entire portfolio of held-for-sale and repurchased mortgage loans and will take a $10.8 million pre-tax charge on the sale, Millennium Bankshares said Friday.

Enterprise Financial Services Corp. in St. Louis announced Wednesday that it plans to sell its Great American Bank subsidiary to First Financial Bancshares Inc. in Lawrence, Kan.

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One indication of how low expectations have fallen in the area of bank and thrift acquisitions is that the slowest January in recent memory struck some observers as surprisingly brisk.

The planned merger of FNB Corp. in Christiansburg, Va., and Virginia Financial Group Inc. in Culpeper has gotten a thumbs-up from two independent proxy advisory firms.

The housing market's collapse has forced First National Bank of Georgia in Carrollton to change its approach to lending.

The budget for the Small Business Administration would authorize the agency to provide $28 billion of loan guarantees to small businesses next fiscal year, under a budget proposal the Bush administration released Monday.