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Ameris has agreed to pay $751 million for Atlanta-based Fidelity; the combined company would have $16 billion in assets.

Live Oak Bancshares became an SBA juggernaut by making loans, selling them and making more. With economic conditions changing, it is retaining more credits.

The North Carolina-based institution distributed more than $624,000 with some members receiving as much as $500.

One week after NCUA filed its own appeal brief, three major organizations banded together in support of the expanded field-of-membership rule

Virginia Partners will operate as a separate bank unit after the deal closes.

When Trinity Capital in New Mexico put itself up for sale last summer, it reached out to several local banks to gauge their interest. Then came a surprise offer from a suitor based a thousand miles away.

Morris State will pay $24 million for the parent of Farmers & Merchants Bank.

Citizens Equity First Credit Union in Peoria, Ill., returned $50 million to its members last month.

From expanding access to affordable financial services to donations and actions to support health and fight cancer, here's a look at how credit unions around the country are giving back this holiday season.

Pennsylvania-based institution will give back $600,000 to members next month.