CHICAGO — Is the banking market here ripe for consolidation?

FNB Financial Services Corp. of Greensboro, N.C., said first-quarter earnings dropped 70%, to $697,000, because of a spike in nonperforming loans.

The National Credit Union Administration has told the $1.6 billion-asset Wings Financial Federal Credit Union of Apple Valley, Minn., that its plan to pay members of a credit union it wants to buy violates the Federal Credit Union Act.

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New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares Inc. in Newport plans to acquire the $83 million-asset First Community Bank of Woodstock, Vt., for $15.5 million in cash and stock.

A former chief executive officer of Grafton State Bank wants to buy it back from Merchants and Manufacturers BanCorp. Inc. in New Berlin, Wis., the multibank holding company that has owned it since 1999.

Sandy Spring Bancorp Inc. is expected to report first-quarter earnings a nickel short of the average analyst estimate.

Newborns typically are mailed birth certificates and Social Security cards within weeks of leaving the hospital. In at least two states they could soon be receiving other important documents: savings account statements.

Pacific Capital Bancorp of Santa Barbara, Calif., lowered its first-quarter and full-year earnings estimates.

Bank of the Carolinas Corp. in Mocksville, N.C., said it would acquire Randolph Bank and Trust Co. in Asheboro.

Executives at Summit Financial Group Inc. in Moorefield, W.Va., view the company’s deal for the troubled Greater Atlantic Financial Corp. as an inexpensive way to scoop up low-cost deposits and strengthen its Virginia branch network.

Monarch Financial Holdings Inc.'s planned expansion into North Carolina's Outer Banks would move the Chesapeake, Va., company outside its home state for the first time.

Bank of the Ozarks Inc. in Little Rock has reported that first-quarter net income slipped 10%, to $7.5 million, from the year earlier.

The National Credit Union Administration has notified members of New Horizons Community Credit Union, a troubled Denver credit union it took over a year ago, of a potential data breach involving their personal financial information.

Less than a week after stepping down as president and chief executive of Millennium Bankshares Inc., Carroll C. Markley, the Reston, Va., company's founder, has resigned from its board.

A second-step conversion completed Wednesday has armed People's United Financial Inc. in Bridgeport, Conn., with $3.3 billion and the potential to be a powerful dealmaker.

Cascade Bancorp in Bend, Ore., reported Thursday that its first-quarter net income rose 61% from a year earlier, to $9.5 million. Earnings per share grew nearly 23%, to 33 cents.

Sterling Financial Corp. of Spokane is wasting no time filling in the gaping hole in its California operations.

Peoples Bancorp Inc. in Marietta, Ohio, announced Wednesday that Donald J. Landers, its chief financial officer and treasurer, has resigned.