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Executives from the company will review Regions’ fourth quarter results via teleconference and live audio webcast beginning at 11 a.m.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2289371340</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:47:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Porter Bancorp Withdraws Exchange Offer for Citizens First Corporation (Business Wire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/091214/20091214006300.html?.v=1</link><description>LOUISVILLE, Ky.----Porter Bancorp, Inc. announced today that it has withdrawn its exchange offer to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Citizens First Corporation for $9.00 per share.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/253534042</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:19:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Superior Bancorp Builds Equity Capital (PR Newswire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/091214/cl25710.html?.v=1</link><description>Superior Bancorp today announced that it had completed an exchange of $69 million of its Preferred Stock held by the U. 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Treasury for an identical amount of Superior&apos;s newly issued Trust Preferred Securities.  As a result of this exchange transaction, Superior will record an accounting gain of approximately $22.5 million after tax, reflecting the net benefit of the favorable interest rate terms of the newly issued Trust Preferred Securities compared to current market rates.  On a pro forma basis, this accounting gain will increase Superior&apos;s tangible common equity by approximately $1.93 per common share outstanding to $15.22 per share as of September 30, 2009, and the Corporation&apos;s tangible common equity ratio will increase from 5.08% to 5.81%.  Attached is a schedule reconciling the foregoing data to GAAP data.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1819144886</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:00:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Louisville arena adds 4 sponsors (at bizjournals.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/bizj/rss/SIG=12f5tlm74/*http%3A//louisville.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2009/12/14/daily4.html?ana=yfcpc</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/3964222997</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:05:26 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Trustmark shares rise on analyst&apos;s upgrade (AP)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/091214/us_trustmark_mover.html?.v=2</link><description>Shares of Trustmark Corp. rose on Monday after an analyst upgraded the stock, saying the regional bank has cash to make potentially lucrative acquisitions after repaying federal bailout money.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2364827633</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:45:08 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IBERIABANK Corporation Names Chief Credit Officer (PR Newswire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/091211/da24907.html?.v=1</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/924664618</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:05:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Simmons First Reports Exercise of Option for Additional Common Stock (GlobeNewswire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/091211/180100.html?.v=1</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/67773936</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:00:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Republic considers issuing $20M in trust preferred securities (at bizjournals.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/bizj/rss/SIG=12g35qs1g/*http%3A//louisville.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2009/12/07/daily24.html?ana=yfcpc</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/4065286263</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:05:21 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Trustmark pays back $215 million government aid (AP)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/091209/us_trustmark_treasury_stock.html?.v=1</link><description>Regional bank Trustmark Corp. has paid back the government&apos;s $215 million investment under the financial bailout plan. The parent of Trustmark Bank, which operates more than 150 offices in Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas, issued 215,000 nonvoting senior preferred shares to the Treasury Department last fall in exchange for its investment under the agency&apos;s Capital Purchase Program.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/3228152721</guid><pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 23:24:53 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Trustmark Corporation Repurchases All Preferred Stock from U. S. 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