Monarch Financial Holdings Inc.'s planned expansion into North Carolina's Outer Banks would move the Chesapeake, Va., company outside its home state for the first time.

Bank of the Ozarks Inc. in Little Rock has reported that first-quarter net income slipped 10%, to $7.5 million, from the year earlier.

The National Credit Union Administration has notified members of New Horizons Community Credit Union, a troubled Denver credit union it took over a year ago, of a potential data breach involving their personal financial information.

Less than a week after stepping down as president and chief executive of Millennium Bankshares Inc., Carroll C. Markley, the Reston, Va., company's founder, has resigned from its board.

A second-step conversion completed Wednesday has armed People's United Financial Inc. in Bridgeport, Conn., with $3.3 billion and the potential to be a powerful dealmaker.

Cascade Bancorp in Bend, Ore., reported Thursday that its first-quarter net income rose 61% from a year earlier, to $9.5 million. Earnings per share grew nearly 23%, to 33 cents.

Sterling Financial Corp. of Spokane is wasting no time filling in the gaping hole in its California operations.

Peoples Bancorp Inc. in Marietta, Ohio, announced Wednesday that Donald J. Landers, its chief financial officer and treasurer, has resigned.

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Mercantile Bank Corp. in Grand Rapids, Mich., announced first-quarter earnings Wednesday of $4.3 million, down 13% from the year earlier period.

The Texas House of Representatives is scheduled to consider a bill this week intended to modernize the state's Finance Code and reduce some bank burdens.

Pacific Capital Bancorp's announcement early Tuesday that it has stopped making controversial holiday and paystub loans appears to be the final blow to products that consumer groups have labeled as predatory.

Suffolk Bancorp in Riverhead, N.Y., said its first-quarter earnings fell 1.4% from a year earlier, to $5.1 million.

Continuing its expansion in metropolitan Atlanta, Security Bank Corp. of Macon, Ga., announced that it is buying the $252 million-asset First Commerce Community Bankshares Inc. in Douglasville.

Just weeks after being named president of New Century Bancorp Inc. in Dunn, N.C., William L. Hedgepeth 2nd has added the title of chief executive officer.

Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc. in Nashville is planning an expansion into the Knoxville market and has selected two SunTrust Banks Inc. executives to lead that effort.

Shares of Columbia Bancorp of The Dalles, Ore., plunged Monday in the first trading session after the company announced that it would report lower-than-expected first-quarter earnings as a result of margin contraction and a sizable loan chargeoff.

The Securities and Exchange Commission took a small step last week toward relaxing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's most onerous provision, but community bankers were expecting something more.

LSB Bancshares Inc. and FNB Financial Services Corp. said they have selected the name NewBridge Bank for the bank that would result from their recently announced deal.

The demise of the Dallas law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist has been a boon for the Richmond, Va., firm Hunton & Williams LLP.