Carlile Bancshares Inc. in Texas announced that it has raised $328 million of capital and been given approval by regulators to bid on larger failed banks.

Less than a month after completing a recapitalization, the $9.7B-asset company cleared another major hurdle Monday as regulators rescinded a year-old cease-and-desist order.

Sterling Financial Corp. in Spokane, Wash., said that regulators have lifted a cease-and-desist order under which it was operating just one month after the company completed a recapitalization.

Monarch Community Bancorp Inc. of Coldwater, Mich., said that it entered into a written agreement with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on Sept. 21.

First Financial Northwest Inc. in Renton, Wash., said that its bank unit has entered into a formal agreement with its regulators.

Capital Bancorp Ltd. said Tuesday that it has completed the sale of its 51% stake in the Bank of San Francisco.

Nearly a year after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said it would resume revealing the losing bids for failed banks, bankers and others in the industry find its disclosures wanting.

Changes in the value of securities continued to have an outsize impact in the first half, but net income returned to the fore.

Eagle Bancorp Inc. of Bethesda, Md., on Monday agreed to acquire a Washington branch along with $17.2 million in deposits from OBA Bank.

LandMark Bank of Florida in Sarasota is now operating under a prompt corrective action directive from the Federal Reserve.

Even with something few aspiring de novos can claim — $25 million of initial capital — launching has been a long, complicated process for Start Community Bank.

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SharePlus Federal Bank in Plano, Texas, has moved one step closer to becoming a publicly traded company.

Integra Bank of Evansville, Ind., has closed its last branch sale in a string of five such deals it made this year to raise capital levels.

Central Virginia Bankshares Inc. in Powhatan has called off its rights and stock offering amid concerns about market conditions.

The $2.8 billion-asset company announced Friday that it had signed agreements with several institutional investors for a direct placement of $10 million of common equity. The shares are to be sold at $5.25 a share, a 7% discount to Thursday's closing price.

The National Credit Union Administration took under conservatorship three more troubled corporate credit unions Friday as part of is effort to shed the corporate system of toxic assets.

Two failures on opposite coasts Friday evening brought the year's toll to 127. Florida regulators closed the $148 million-asset Haven Trust Bank in Ponte Vedra Beach. Later, the $289 million-asset North County Bank in Arlington, Wash., was shuttered.

Issues that have hindered deals in the past few years have led some banks in the past few months to amend their agreements, while even more have terminated them.

Issues that have hindered deals in the past few years have led some banks in the past few months to amend their agreements, while even more have terminated them.