Sovereign Bank in Dallas is converting its loan production office in Houston into a regional headquarters and is eyeing further expansion in Texas' largest city.

Bryn Mawr Bank Corp. in Pennsylvania is acquiring a Philadelphia-area wealth management firm from Boston Private Financial Holdings Inc. and the firm's management group.

Cape Bancorp Inc. in Cape May Court House, N.J., swung to a $1.6 million loss in the fourth quarter after taking $1 million writedown on foreclosed properties and an additional $1.1 million writedown on its investment in pooled trust-preferred securities that have lost much of their value.

Regulators, particularly the OCC, are hitting banks with consent orders for erroneous accounting for troubled-debt restructurings. The issue, based on new FASB standards, is becoming a catalyst for higher loan-loss provisions and lower profit.

Solid loan and deposit growth powered Bancorp of New Jersey Inc. to its most profitable quarter in its six-year history, the company said Friday.

The former president and chief executive at the failed Orion Bank in Naples, Fla., faces up to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to lying to examiners about the bank’s health.

Howard Milstein and other members of the family that owns Emigrant have hired Barclays Capital to explore selling its 33 branches or online banking operation. Emigrant still has to repay its federal aid and has been weighed down by problem loans.

Driven by strong growth in both interest and fee income, Territorial Bancorp Inc. in Honolulu reported a 6% increase in its fourth-quarter earnings, to $3.4 million.

The family that owns consumer products giant S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. has won approval from the Federal Reserve Board to invest $235 million in its ailing namesake bank.

Fueled by solid loan growth and sharply lower funding costs, CNB Financial Corp. in Clearfield, Pa., said Thursday that net income in the fourth quarter climbed 32% from the same period in 2010, to $3.9 million.

Analysts and former regulators debate whether last year's decline in new regulatory orders means things are improving for the banking industry, or if regulators are simply running out of sick banks to flag.

BankAtlantic Bancorp Chairman Alan Levan says his company would likely be "out of business" within two years if certain investors succeed in blocking the sale of BankAtlantic's thrift to BB&T Corp.

The Small Business Lending Fund is projected to generate an $80 million profit, rather than the $1.3 billion cost initially estimated, according to a Treasury Department report.

Want to jump to another bank that will pay you more? It's easier than you think for employers to prevent that, a business professor explains.

Porter Bancorp Inc. in Louisville, Ky. reported a bigger than expected loss for the fourth quarter and warned investors that the ultimate loss for the quarter could be even larger.

Provident Financial Holdings Inc. in Riverside, Calif., has hired 40 people from MetLife Inc. to run three new retail mortgage loan production offices in Northern California.

The FDIC has fined Stuart Voigt, a former Vikings player, and wants to ban him from banking after accusing him of improper dealings as chairman of a Minnesota bank.

Bank marketing can be a bit, er, plain, but the Denver bank uses that reality to its advantage in an ad set to air Sunday in Colorado during the Super Bowl.

Despite reporting vastly improved credit quality, Independent Bank Corp. in Ionia, Mich., said Thursday that its losses in the fourth quarter doubled from the same period in 2010, to $9.8 million.

In what would be its first bank acquisition in seven years, Center Bancorp Inc. in Union, N.J., announced Thursday that it is buying the private-equity backed Saddle River Valley Bank in an all-cash deal.