First Financial Bankshares Inc. in Abilene, Tex., has changed the name of another one of its 10 subsidiaries.

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Gerald Ernst has resigned as the president and chief executive of Community Bank of Arizona in Glendale.

Vague rules and secretive lawsuits are leading some bankers to abandon government-guaranteed lending to farmers.

East West Bancorp Inc. has persuaded the Greenlining Institute to drop its protest of a pending acquisition by pledging $11.5 billion to community reinvestment activities over the next 10 years.

Olney Bancshares Inc. in Texas struck a deal Monday to acquire Union Bank of Oklahoma City for $76.9 million in cash from MB Financial Inc., an $8 billion-asset multibank holding company in Chicago.

Eddie Ledford had been meaning to start bicycling to work for years, but he never got around to it until he got a job in 2005 as a loan officer at Fidelity and Trust Bank in Bethesda, Md.

Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. has struck its third community bank buyout deal since forming a banking subsidiary in January.

Now that America's Community Bankers is merging with the American Bankers Association, what might become of ACB's remaining state association members?

Integrity Bancshares Inc. of Alpharetta, Ga., announced Friday that its second-quarter net income would be reduced by about $21 million because of significant deterioration in its commercial real estate loan portfolio.

Harleysville National Corp. of Pennsylvania said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that a recent internal audit uncovered a misappropriation of $578,000 resulting from "unauthorized activities" by an employee of the bank.

Tower Financial Corp. of Fort Wayne, Ind., announced Monday that it has called off plans to establish its first bank in Indianapolis.

The Louisiana Bankers Association has selected Robert Taylor as its chief executive officer.

Union National Community Bank in Lancaster, Pa., entered a memorandum of understanding with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency last week.

Sung Won Sohn, the president and chief executive officer of Hanmi Financial Corp. in Los Angeles, visited New York this month to suss out the local Korean communities.

The Texas Credit Union Commission has proposed a new rule that would effectively ban hostile credit union takeovers.

Pacific Capital Bancorp has renewed its focus on serving middle-market customers and high-net-worth individuals, and it is shedding its equipment leasing and indirect auto financing businesses, because they do not jibe with that strategy.

PrivateBancorp Inc. of Chicago announced Thursday that it expects its nonperforming loans to rise this quarter because of the softening real estate market.

Mercantile Bancorp Inc. of Quincy, Ill., said it has improved its internal financial reporting and strengthened its management controls by using an online service to extract information from the data processing systems of its bank units.