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The Wisconsin company is paying $248 million for Mackinac, which has $1.5 billion of assets and $1.3 billion of deposits.

The Mississippi company has never done a deal this large. But buying Houston-based Cadence would take it into high-growth markets and reduce both companies' concentrations in sectors such as energy, dining and hospitality.

The special-purpose bank, licensed by the state of Wyoming, has drawn the support of investors and some policymakers. But banking groups say the digital assets that underlie its business model are highly volatile.

The central bank should consider using a tool requiring higher capital amounts when times are good rather than offering temporary regulatory relief in a downturn, said Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren.

Katz Investment agreed to buy Camp Grove Bancorp in March 2019. The Federal Reserve approved the buyer's application to form a bank holding company earlier this year.

CMSPI estimates that retailers lost about $30 billion in potential online sales last year from e-commerce transactions that were declined for a variety of reasons including fraud, insufficient funds, technical problems and errors.

The Louisiana credit union holds just $3.5 million of assets and could not find a successor for its retiring chief executive.

The scandal over the collapse of Wirecard AG expanded as German financial regulator BaFin faces a criminal probe into how it oversaw the payment processor and whether some of the agency’s staff illegally traded the stock.

The agency has suggested it could go beyond enforcing fair-lending laws to urge financial institutions to help narrow the wealth gap. But those very same laws pose obstacles to achieving that goal.

There's often more guidance on what not to do than what to do, says Texture Capital's Richard Johnson.