NEW BUSINESS Datacard Group, Minnetonka, has established an agreement with Golden Spring Technology, a provider of smart label and RFID equipment, for Datacard to offer customers smart label package systems, as well as contactless smart card inlay systems, in the Asia-Pacific region.

DEBT AND EQUITIES TCF Financial Corp., Wayzata, has completed the repurchase of all 361,172 shares of 5 percent fixed-rate cumulative perpetual preferred stock at a total redemption price of $361.2 million, plus a final pro rata accrued dividend of $3.4 million. TCF is the largest bank to completely pay back Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds to the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

U.S. Bancorp, Minneapolis, has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $82,487,500, or $12.50 per share, on its Series E fixed-rate cumulative perpetual preferred stock. This preferred dividend is payable on May 15 to the shareholder of record as of April 30. This is the second quarterly dividend payment to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the shareholder of record, on the preferred stock issued to it by U.S. Bancorp under TARP.

PERSONNEL Fintegra Financial Solutions, a Minneapolis-based broker-dealer and financial services firm, has named Craig Gould president and chief executive officer, succeeding Doreen Weber, one of the company's founders, who has left the company. Gould previously was national sales manager and managing director of Wunderlich Securities Inc.