ONTARIO, Calif.-The Richard Myles Johnson Foundation, the foundation for CUs in California and Nevada, recently handed out a pair grants totaling $17,200 for various youth financial literacy efforts. A $10,000 grant went to Educational Employees Credit Union in Fresno to help fund the opening of a student credit union branch that will be operating in conjunction with Educational Employees CU. The $7,200 grant went to Junior Achievement of Sacramento for its classroom presentation program that should educate more than 300 students in 14 different elementary classrooms.
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The group behind the proposed Georgia Skyline Bank says recapitalizing a 24-year-old Virginia bank offers a faster path to success than a new charter would.
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IDScan.net removed the pages naming its bank and credit union integrations after KrebsOnSecurity traced 153 million license scans to the company.
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A consortium of international FIs are planning to issue a U.S. stablecoin in early 2027; London-based OpenPayd has entered the U.S. through its acquisition of MSB USA; the U.K. fined Citi £4.7 million ($6.3 million) for hundreds of transactions in breach of sanctions against Russia; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
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The controlling owner of Santa Fe-based Century Financial Services Corp. wound up in bankruptcy court. Now his 71% stake is on the verge of being sold to an Oklahoma bank.
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Swift's network of 11,500 banks can exchange deposit tokens in a standardized way.
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The big three's trade group has said they operate legally and protect the industry with a trio of reports. FHFA also is opening up VantageScore for all lenders.
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