METAIRIE, La. - (02/21/06) -- The corporate network continued tocontract lastw week with another merger announced, this one betweenLouisiana Corporate CU and Corporate America CU. The combinationwill create a corporate with about $1.3 billion in assets andserving more than 300 natural person credit unions. Uner the plans,Corporate America CU will be the surviving entity and LouisianaCorporate CU would continue to operate as a branch of the Irondale,Ala.-based corporate. At least two other corporate nmergers arealready in process: Western Corporate FCU (WesCorp) with VolunteerCorporate FCU (VolCorp); and Empire Corporate FCU with Mid-StateCorporate FCU. The merger of the Louisiana and Alabama corporateswill leave 27 surviving corporates of a network that included 44corporates, not including U.S. Central CU, a decade ago.
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Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., is introducing a bill to establish an Office of Supervisory Appeals at each of the banking regulators and that would give banks more power over the appeals process.
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Capital Community Bank of Provo has purchased Security Home Mortgage, headquartered in nearby Orem.
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The Minneapolis-based company has promoted Kedia to president, a role that CEO Andy Cecere and his predecessor both held before being named to the top job.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's overdraft proposal would set fees at $14. With fee income under attack from many sides, bankers say they would have to further restrict credit.
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In a surprise move, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Housing Finance Agency proposed a long-awaited rule to curb certain incentive-based pay arrangements for bank executives.
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The $1.1 billion-asset Vibrant is working with the San Francisco-based distributed ledger development firm Metallicus through its Metal Blockchain Banking Innovation Program to examine use cases.
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