BankUnited Financial Corp. of Coral Gables, Fla., announced Monday that it would report a loss for the second quarter because it prepaid $405 million of Federal Home Loan Bank advances.

New York Community Bancorp Inc. took another step Monday in its balance-sheet restructuring by accepting $20 million of municipal deposits from New York City and New York State.

Structuring a commercial loan can be a challenge for banks based in Texas.

First National Bank Midwest of Oskaloosa, Iowa, wanted to beat other banks to the punch and be the first to open a branch in a busy new shopping district in west Des Moines.

South Georgia Holding Co. in Omega is acquiring the $134 million-asset Community National Bancorp of Ashburn for $29.5 million.

Robert E. Evans, who retired at the end of last month after 24 years as the chief executive officer of Peoples Bancorp Inc. in Marietta, Ohio, died late Wednesday, after a yearlong battle with stomach cancer. He was 65.

Eight months after opening its first out-of-state branch, Hudson City Bancorp of Jersey City is set to start adding more at a furious pace.

Simmons First National Corp. of Pine Bluff, Ark., has tripled its assets and expanded statewide over the last decade largely through acquisitions, but it is taking some time off from dealmaking to focus on internal growth.

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BancFirst Corp. in Oklahoma City said it had uncovered a $3.25 million shortfall at one of its branches.

Having been a defendant in four lawsuits in connection with loans guaranteed by the Farm Service Agency, Gold Banc Corp. Inc. of Leawood, Kan., has filed a suit of its own — against the agency.

After sitting on the sidelines for nearly four years, NBT Bancorp Inc. of Norwich, N.Y., has found a deal that it hopes is a perfect fit.

Two professional investors who have amassed large stakes of Century Bancorp Inc. in the past six months are pressuring the Medford, Mass., company to sell.

People's Bank of Bridgeport, Conn., is selling three branches to the much smaller Putnam Savings Bank in Putnam, Conn.

When Congress last year was debating a regulatory-relief bill for financial services firms, many community bankers felt there was not much in it for them.

Credit union advocates said Monday that 46 House members have agreed to co-sponsor the Credit Union Regulatory Improvements Act of 2005, which Reps. Edward R. Royce, R-Calif., and Paul E. Kanjorski, D-Pa., introduced last month.

Ronald Grzywinski, the chairman and chief executive of ShoreBank Corp. of Chicago, is the 2005 winner of the John W. Gardner Leadership Award.

Citizens Bancshares Corp. of Atlanta announced Monday that Willard "Chuck" Lewis, its chief operating officer, had resigned to become the chief executive officer at a new Atlanta bank.