Tri-Valley Bank in San Ramon, Calif., plans to raise $2.5 million through a private placement of common stock.

The $6.5 billion-asset bank said in a press release Thursday that it plans to transfer its common stock and senior notes to the NYSE from the Nasdaq.

A new report from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency finds potential industry threats from interest rate volatility, looser underwriting and other areas.

Meta Financial Group in Sioux Falls, S.D., has filed to raise up to $26 million by selling common stock.

Small banks and credit unions are looking to a lab hosted by NCR's Digital Insight to try out new tech like biometrics and beacons in an effort to keep up with their larger competitors.

South Shore Bank in South Weymouth, Mass., has lined up its next president and chief executive.

Where there's a will, there's a way for Chris Bauer, who guided Anchor through bankruptcy as a means of recapitalizing the once-struggling Wisconsin company. The turnaround was punctuated with the company's October IPO.

George Engelke Jr., former chairman, president, and chief executive of the Astoria Financial in Lake Success, N.Y., has died.

Integrity Bancshares in Camp Hill, Pa., first approached S&T Bancorp about an $8 million loan before eventually agreeing to sell itself to the Indiana, Pa., company.

The Defense Department's decision to bar service members from using the military's discretionary allotment system will reduce Farmers Capital's annual process revenue by nearly $1.5 million.

The $1 billion-asset company said in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it repurchased its remaining shares of preferred stock issued to the Treasury Department during the financial crisis.

Farmers Capital Bank in Frankfort, Ky., said a change in the rules governing allotments by active-duty service members will shave more than $800,000 off its bottom line next year.

Northwest Bancshares in Warren, Pa., has agreed to buy LNB Bancorp in Lorain, Ohio.

The $16.3 billion-asset UMB will pay $182.5 million in stock for the Marquette, which is owned by the Pohlad family. The acquisition, which values Marquette at 160% of its tangible book value, is expected to close in mid-2015.

A controversial plan to reform the bankruptcy code would shift the balance of power between debtors and creditors, resulting in extensive — but difficult to forecast — changes to the banking industry.

Bridge Bancorp in Bridgehampton, N.Y., has agreed to buy Community National Bank in Melville, N.Y.

Trevor Burgess, CEO of C1 Financial, brings an investment banker's irreverence to the normally decorous business of community banking. But he's produced a record that backs up his brash talk.

The $5.9 billion-asset company said in a press release Friday that it has offered the subordinated notes in a private placement to unnamed institutional investors.

Doral Financial in San Juan, Puerto Rico, has resubmitted its capital restoration plan to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. after the agency determined that the initial plan was insufficient.

Some banks offer better mobile apps than others, although there is time to recover because most consumers are not quite ready to switch banks yet based on app quality.