Comerica Inc. has dropped its plan to pursue a national bank charter as its planned move to Texas nears.

BancorpSouth Inc. is wasting no time bulking up in Missouri.

Mary Cheh dreams big — the first-term City Councilwoman wants to transform the District of Columbia into a financial center.

BankAtlantic Bancorp Inc.'s biggest shareholder has terminated its deal to reacquire a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., home builder BankAtlantic spun off three years earlier.

Pinnacle Financial Partners in Nashville announced late Wednesday that it is buying Mid-America Bancshares Inc. of Nashville for $196 million in cash and stock.

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Pacific Commerce Bank in Los Angeles said Wednesday that it had converted its national charter into a state one, so it could have higher lending limits for its new focus on commercial real estate lending.

Atlantic Southern Financial Group Inc. of Macon, Ga., is moving into Florida.

LCNB Corp. of Lebanon, Ohio, announced Tuesday that it has agreed to buy Sycamore National Bank in Cincinnati for $9.7 million in cash and stock.

Three weeks after reporting a second-quarter profit of $651,000, PSB Group Inc. in Madison Heights, Mich., now says it lost $339,000 in the quarter.

The newly public TFS Financial Corp. in Cleveland said Tuesday that it swung to a $17.3 million loss in its fiscal third quarter, which ended June 30, after earning $14.7 million a year earlier.

Camden National Corp., of Camden, Maine, announced Tuesday that it has agreed to buy Union Bankshares Co., of Ellsworth, Maine, for about $72.5 million, or 1.82 times book value.

Sagging prices for community bank and thrift stocks have prompted several thrifts to rethink plans for their public offerings.

First Corbin Bancorp in Corbin, Ky., has beat out a rival banking company for the right to acquire Eagle Fidelity Inc. of Williamstown, Ky.

First Niagara Financial Group Inc. in Lockport, N.Y., is selling four of its branches in the central part of the state to Elmira Savings Bank for about $14.4 million.

PFF Bancorp Inc. in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., said Monday that it had revised its quarterly earnings downward after further increasing its provisions for losses on loans to residential developers.

A Fulton Financial Corp. subsidiary has settled its lawsuit against Monarch Financial Holdings Inc. in Chesapeake, Va., the companies said Monday.

Community banking companies in Indianapolis have found themselves in a land of regionals after a spate of acquisitions has taken out a rung of midsize competitors.

First Charter Corp. of Charlotte said Monday that despite reports to the contrary, it is not a creditor of HomeBanc Corp., the Atlanta mortgage lender that filed for bankruptcy Thursday.