Article: END COULD BE NEAR FOR AMCORE BANK?(BUSINESS)

Byline: Mike Ivey mivey@madison.com

The end may be near for Rockford-based Amcore Bank.

Federal regulators have rejected Amcore Financial Inc.'s plan to raise capital, giving the troubled lender a month to raise the needed money or sell, according to a report in Crain's ChicagoBusiness.com.

Amcore -- which has nine branches in the Madison area -- has until Dec. 4 to submit a new plan to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under "prompt corrective action" guidelines that are one of the last formal steps regulators ...

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