Flagstar Bancorp, Inc., , the holding company of Flagstar Bank, announced today that the subscription period of its previously announced rights offering expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on February 8, 2010.  In the aggregate, the Company will receive approximately $300.6 million of proceeds in connection with the exercise of subscription rights by its stockholders and will be issuing an aggregate of approximately 423.3 million shares of its common stock to participating stockholders.   Of these amounts, the Company received $300.0 million in proceeds from MP Thrift Investments L.P., its controlling stockholder, on January 27, 2010 and issued approximately 422.5 million shares of the Company's common stock at that time.

With RRSP season quickly coming to an end, many Canadian investors may be wondering whether they should borrow to contribute to their retirement fund or whether they should use whatever money they have to pay off debt.

First Defiance Financial Corp. today announced a revision to its previously announced fourth quarter and full year 2009 earnings as described below. The revision is due primarily to an increase in the provision for loan loss of $1.5 million.

NEW CASTLE, Ind.—-Ameriana Bancorp , parent company for Ameriana Bank, today announced results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009. The Company's profit for the fourth quarter continued a positive earnings trend in the second half of the year.

FRANKLIN, Ind.—-Robert D. Heuchan, President and CEO of Third Century Bancorp , the holding company of Mutual Savings Bank, announced that for the year ended December 31, 2009, the company reported a net loss of $233,000 compared with a net loss of $763,000 for the year ended December 31, 2008.

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