Community banking
Community banking
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Liberty Bell Bank of Cherry Hill, N.J., lost less money last year, its second full year in operation.
March 10 -
Fourth-quarter earnings of Salisbury Bancorp Inc. of Lakeville, Conn., fell 25% from a year earlier, to $793,000.
March 10 - Mississippi
Though the $8.4 billion-asset Trustmark Corp. has the No. 1 deposit share in Mississippi, it was spared the worst of Hurricane Katrina's destruction - because it had no branches on the Gulf.
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Bancshares of Florida Inc., a three-bank holding company in Naples, is buying the $93 million-asset Bristol Bank of Coral Gables for $21 million in cash and stock.
March 9 -
MBT Financial Corp. of Monroe, Mich., revised its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings to reflect a $740,000 addition to its loan-loss allowance.
March 9 - Arizona
Capitol Bancorp Ltd. of Lansing, Mich., is making another run at an Asian-American bank.
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Pentagon Federal Credit Union in Alexandria, Va., has formed a full-service real estate brokerage, PenFed Realty LLC.
March 8 - Massachusetts
Brookline Bancorp's deal to buy control of Eastern Finance LLC, a small finance company in New York that lends mainly to self-service laundries, is not as unusual as its sounds.
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Terry R. Jorde, who today will become the chairman of the Independent Community Bankers of America, owes her enthusiasm for small banks partly to a potato farmer.
March 8 -
Cardinal Financial Corp. in Tysons Corner, Va., restated its third-quarter 2004 and 2005 and full-year 2004 results to correct mistakes in how it classified some loans and payments connected with its July 2004 acquisition of George Mason Mortgage Corp.
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The Banc Corp. in Birmingham, Ala., announced Monday that it is buying Kensington Bankshares Inc. in Tampa for $71.2 million in stock.
March 7 - California
It has been a rough few months for ITLA Capital Corp. of La Jolla, Calif.
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Texas' two banking trade groups apparently will not be joining forces anytime soon.
March 7 -
- Louisiana
Bankers in the Gulf Coast region are pleased the Small Business Administration has decided to let them process and close disaster-relief loans, but some said they will keep pushing for a larger role in hopes of a faster recovery for the area.
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First Bancorp in Troy, N.C., said Friday that it had revised its 2005 earnings and that it made nearly $2 million more than it initially reported.
March 6 - Michigan
Capitol Bancorp Ltd. in Lansing, Mich., has appointed Richard C. Houseworth, a banking industry veteran who spent 13 years as the superintendent of the Arizona Department of Financial Institutions, to lead its government relations efforts.
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