Porter Bancorp in Louisville is poised to make John Taylor its chief executive after the sudden retirement of Maria Bouvette. The move could improve its changes of attracting new investors to recapitalize it.

Community banks are once again considering offering credit cards after retreating from the product after the financial crisis.

Profit slipped at Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR) in San Antonio as expenses rose last quarter.

Profit fell at New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) in Westbury, N.Y, as mortgage banking revenue dropped sharply last quarter.

New executives are effecting an IT reawakening at Orrstown Bank to prepare it for growth. Projects being tackled include: enlarging the IT team, outsourcing the core, replacing the email system and redoing the digital channels.

BankUnited (BKU) in Miami Lakes, Fla., added interest income and beat earnings estimates as it expanded into New York City last quarter.

Asset management fees helped push UMB Financial in Kansas City, Mo., to a higher quarterly profit.

Berkshire Hills Bancorp in Pittsfield, Mass., and Community Bank System in DeWitt, N.Y., have struck deals to buy branches from Bank of America.

Trustmark in Jackson, Miss., says it is starting to realize the benefits of its acquisition of BancTrust Financial Group.

German American Bancorp in Jasper, Ind., has agreed to buy United Commerce Bancorp in Bloomington, Ind.

The $17 billion-asset company's second-quarter earnings rose 2% from a year earlier, to $40.6 million. Per-share earnings of 21 cents beat the estimates of analysts polled by Bloomberg by 2 cents.

Executives of PacWest had become frustrated with the shortcomings of traditional, deposit-heavy banks when seeking M&A targets. They reached instead for the prospect of loan growth provided by commercial financier CapitalSource.

Providing financing to solar farms is 'socially responsible' and a good way to expand in leveraged loans, its CEO says. Its in-house experts came via an acquisition.

Bank analyst Brian Foran poked fun at his own job-hopping during a regional bank's second-quarter earnings call.

The outspoken CEO has nothing but praise for the Basel Committee and says bankers have little to fear from the CFPB.

Chinatrust Bank in Los Angeles has hired heads of risk management and retail banking.

Porter Bancorp (PBIB) in Louisville, Ky., will replace its chairman and chief executive at the end of this month.

The Alabama regional bank, which struggled to jumpstart top-line growth during the second quarter, is hiring financial consultants and holding more 15-year mortgages.

MB Financial was eager to buy Taylor Capital because of its commercial lending prowess, not its mortgage unit. However, private-equity firms are said to be in talks to buy the unit.

The Federal Reserve Board has terminated enforcement actions with Royal Bancshares of Pennsylvania in Narberth and First Pryority Bank in Pryor, Okla.