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		<title><![CDATA[Mechanics Bank announces profit spike]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mechanics Bank has bucked the woes that have dogged numerous financial institutions amid the subprime crisis, and on Wednesday announced earnings that sparkled during 2007.    The Richmond-based bank in 2007 earned $29 million, a 9.4 percent jump from profits in 2006. The bank's interest income totaled...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Mechanics Bank Reports Record Earnings in 2007]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Successful Year Highlighted by Growth in Non-Interest Income, Loans and Shareholder Equity  RICHMOND, Calif. -- The Mechanics Bank (www.mechbank.com) today announced that its 2007 earnings topped $29 million, the best year in its 103-year history, and a 9.5 % increase over 2006, when it earned $26.5 million.  Steven...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mechanics Bank tunes up old railway building]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[RICHMOND -- A new Mechanics Bank branch has rescueda century-old railway building in Point Richmond and is expected to spur economic activity in the community.    Mechanics Bank has agreed to occupy a structure known as the Trainmasters Building that once was slated for a wrecking ball. The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Mechanics Bank Turns 100: East Bay Bank Pioneered First Consumer Loans in California]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[RICHMOND, Calif. -- East Bay-based The Mechanics Bank, a $2.5 billion community bank still principally owned by the family that founded it, turns 100 on October 28, 2005. It's one of only a handful of California banks that have achieved centenarian status while still locally owned and controlled.  In...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mechanics Bank Selects Farm9 for 24x7 Compliance and Internet Security Monitoring Service]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[OAKLAND, Calif. -- Growing Community Bank Leverages Security Experts, Freeing Internal Team to Focus on Leading Technologies That Deliver Superior Customer Service  Farm9, the leading network security compliance company for western U.S. banks, today announced that $2 billion Mechanics Bank, headquartered in Hercules, Calif., has selected the Farm9 Security...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Richmond, Calif.-Based Mechanics Bank Picks New CEO.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By George Avalos, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight  Ridder/Tribune Business News    Jun. 22--The Mechanics Bank has tapped an executive from a Southern   California financial services firm as its new top boss.    Steven Buster on July 1 is due to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Farmers and Mechanics Bank Selects iMagic to Offer Check Images Via the Internet]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Editors  GLASTONBURY, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 16, 2002  More than 70,000 imaged statements to be delivered to customers on the  iMagic platform  iMagic an Open Solutions Technology, a single-source provider of flexible image-enabled item processing software and imaging systems for community financial institutions, announced the sale of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Farmers & Mechanics Bank announces addition to government banking department]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIDDLETOWN, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 5, 1996--The company is pleased to announce that Jan Godley, currently the treasurer of Enfield, Conn., is joining Farmers & Mechanics Bank, Middletown, in its Government Banking Department.As a Government Banking Officer, her primary responsibility will be to develop products and services to meet the financial needs...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 1996 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Farmers & Mechanics Bank announces quarterly results and long term earnings improvements]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIDDLETOWN, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 25, 1995--Farmers & Mechanics Bank (Nasdaq:FMCT) reports a net loss for the third quarter of $2.295 million, or $1.38 per share, as compared with a net loss of $488 thousand, or 29 cents per share for the comparable period in 1994.For the first nine months of 1995,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 1995 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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