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Achieva Credit Union, which recently formed a business to advise other acquisition-minded credit unions, has agreed to buy Preferred Community Bank.

Allison Dukes will succeed current CFO Aleem Gillani when he retires at the end of this quarter, while Mark Chancy and Beau Cummins will become co-chief operating officers immediately.

A small legal case in California brings a warning to banks: Be careful who you report for fraud.

A strategic payments plan could shine a light on critical gaps in a community bank’s offerings; one frequently missed opportunity is credit cards, writes Deborah Matthews Phillips, managing director of payment strategy for Jack Henry & Associates.

Credit unions celebrate longevity of service with anniversary celebrations and more news related to recruitment and retention of top talent.

Western Union’s long-rumored relationship with Ripple is turning out to be real.

South Korea’s government gave the strongest signal yet that it will allow cryptocurrency exchanges to keep operating in the country, a welcome development for traders who had feared an outright ban in one of the world’s biggest markets for digital assets.

Indian online shopping site Paytm Mall is opening a New Delhi store, taking a page out of backer Alibaba’s playbook in exploring ways to use physical retail to boost its online business.

There’s a widely held belief that clamping down on fraud in one area will lead to it popping up somewhere else. There is some truth to this — fraudsters favor the points of least resistance. But there are also major exceptions.

Fannie Mae will request an infusion of taxpayer money for the first time since 2012 because of an unintended but anticipated side effect of the corporate tax cut signed into law in December.