Liberty Bell Bank of Cherry Hill, N.J., lost less money last year, its second full year in operation.

Fourth-quarter earnings of Salisbury Bancorp Inc. of Lakeville, Conn., fell 25% from a year earlier, to $793,000.

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.

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.

Capitol Bancorp Ltd. of Lansing, Mich., is making another run at an Asian-American bank.

Pentagon Federal Credit Union in Alexandria, Va., has formed a full-service real estate brokerage, PenFed Realty LLC.

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.

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.

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.

The Banc Corp. in Birmingham, Ala., announced Monday that it is buying Kensington Bankshares Inc. in Tampa for $71.2 million in stock.

It has been a rough few months for ITLA Capital Corp. of La Jolla, Calif.

Texas' two banking trade groups apparently will not be joining forces anytime soon.

Talk about strained relationships.

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.

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.

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.