Bruce Thomas

Trading Day: Inside the SEC filings for 8.5.10

Commonwealth Biotechnology has a new CEO, while the controller and principal accounting officer at Xenith Bank is retiring. Plus quarterly earnings from Genworth, Brink’s, Insmed, New Market and Tredegar.

Making bank, plus a bonus

Fresh off a year of big losses, Community Bankers Trust Corp., a local bank holding company and parent of Essex Bank, increased the base salaries and total compensation of many of its top executives in 2009, according to its latest SEC filing.