CUNA says now that membership for credit unions grew by only a third of what it originally projected for the weeks before Bank Transfer Day.

Looking to bulk up in affluent Orange County, California United Bank in Encino announced Friday that it is buying the $450 million-asset Premier Commercial Bancorp in Anaheim for $38.1 million in stock.

Prosperity Bancshares Inc. in Houston has struck its second deal in three months, announcing Friday that it is buying East Texas Financial Services Inc. in Tyler in all-stock deal.

Center Bancorp Inc. in Union, N.J., said Thursday that it repurchased warrants it issued to the Treasury Department as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Want to defuse disgruntled customers and Occupy protesters across the country? Perhaps bankers should consider the power of a well-timed juicy cut of beef. At least that's the advice of Peter Shankman, founder and chief executive of social media firm the Geek Factory.

The management of the newly formed BBCN Bancorp believe delayed approvals helped Nara Bancorp and Center Financial better prepare for their merger.

U.S. Bancorp and Fifth Third are eyeing small deals that would make them bigger players in markets they are already in, executives say. It sounds like a good idea for them and others, but will banks stick to it?

The Federal Reserve Board said Thursday that it had approved Brookline Bancorp Inc.'s acquisition of Bancorp Rhode Island Inc. in Providence, R.I.

Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina Inc. in Newton said that Tony Wolfe, its longtime president and chief executive, will retire late next year.

Roundtable panelists discuss the potential for more lending in 2012 and what areas seem well suited for community banks.

S&T Bancorp Inc. in Indiana, Pa., said Wednesday that it had redeemed its preferred stock that it sold to the Treasury Department as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

First Niagara's plan to pay for nearly 200 HSBC branches has diminished the deal's promise, put new burdens on the bank and its investors and lowered CEO John Koelmel's profile on Wall Street.

Three state banking commissioners — Mark Kaufman of Maryland, James Cooper of Indiana and John Ducrest of Louisiana — said Wednesday that heightened regulatory, economic and policy concerns are deterring worthy state-chartered banks from winning big investors.

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Equity Bank in Andover, Kan., and University National Bank in Lawrence, Kan., have terminated their deal to merge.

Lower failure activity drives spending decline, but agency adds resources for Dodd-Frank implementation.

The extra $108 million of nonperforming assets is not a problem, BMO's chief Bill Downe says in an interview in discussing the Canadian company's integration of its recent U.S. acquisition.

The Federal Reserve has hit Waccamaw Bank with a prompt corrective action ordering the Whiteville, N.C., bank to increase equity or sell itself.

A credit union association has "egg on its face" after scaling back its estimate of membership gains, one banking representative says. Another cautions against too much celebration.