Frank Gargano

The credit union’s agreement to acquire Midwest Community Bank in Illinois follows two other bank deals it announced this year.

Temenos and Mbanq created a platform to offer technology and compliance services to credit unions via application programming interfaces.

Finastra, a technology vendor to credit unions and small banks, is adding the Bakkt digital asset app to its platform. This will allow clients' customers to buy, sell and hold digital assets like Bitcoin.

Shane Berger, who has been at the helm of Beehive for nearly 37 years, will hand over his responsibilities to Craig Gummow on Jan. 4.

Combined, the two would have over $11 billion of assets and nearly 80 branches serving members of the armed forces across five states and in Italy.

After extending its deadline for request for comment on cryptocurrency by a month, the National Credit Union Administration heard from credit unions and other organizations that want clarity on the boundaries the agency plans to set.

Laurie Butz, a senior vice president at another Wisconsin credit union, will replace longtime CEO Tom Young, who is retiring.

The credit union is working with CUSO Financial Services, a unit of Atria Wealth Solutions, to add secure document uploading and other features to its website.

Through these partnerships, lenders can diversify their portfolios and even help members recoup their investment by selling or gaining credits for excess energy.

A leading voice for community banks, Stewart is a past chair of the American Bankers Association and serves on the board of the Seattle branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.