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SALT LAKE CITY — The "Credit Union Difference" is on display in Times Square thanks to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, which is running an enormous electronic billboard there to thank Credit Unions for Kids and COO-OP Financial Services for all they do to benefit kids.

MADISON, Wis. — The World Council of CUs is now accepting scholarship applications for young professionals to attend the 2016 World CU Conference in Ireland.

Biloxi, Miss. — Keesler Federal Credit Union here announced it has paid out a loan interest rebate and deposit bonus dividend of about $3.4 million to its members.

Kentucky First Federal Bancorp is merging its two banks.

Opus Bank in Irvine, Calif., has received regulatory approval to form a broker-dealer subsidiary that will expand its merchant banking capabilities.

BB&T in Winston-Salem, N.C., has received regulatory approval to buy Citigroup's remaining branches in Texas.

CertusBank in Greenville, S.C., lost nearly $70 million last year.

Old National Bancorp in Evansville, Ind., has agreed to sell a total of 17 branches in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio to First Mid-Illinois Bancshares and MainSource Financial Group.

The Seminole Tribe of Florida has withdrawn its agreement to buy Mackinac Savings Bank in Boynton Beach, Fla., and may instead try to open a credit union.

Investors Bancorp in Short Hills, N.J., reported higher quarterly income thanks to a combination of acquisitions and organic growth.

National Bank Holdings in Greenwood Village, Colo., has finally returned to the acquisition game, by agreeing to buy Pine River Bank in Bayfield, Colo.

Great Western Bancorp in Sioux Falls, S.D., reported lower profit in its first quarter since completing its initial public offering.

The Bancorp in Wilmington, Del., reported a quarterly loss as it racked up higher expenses to resolving anti-money laundering issues.

Community & Southern Holdings in Atlanta has agreed to buy Community Business Bank in Cumming, Ga.

The ability of Somali-Americans to send cash home to their relatives is again in peril after a California bank decided to stop facilitating the money transfers, according to a foreign aid organization that has been monitoring the situation.

State Bank Financial in Atlanta reported a decline quarterly profits as the accounting benefits related to its failed-bank purchases continued to wane.

New York Community Bancorp wants Washington to raise the asset size for systemically important financial institutions, but in the meanwhile its asset sales to stay under the threshold helped to boost profits and its CEO is pursuing possible M&A deals.

Umpqua Holdings in Portland, Ore., fell short of Wall Street expectations for the fourth quarter because of a decline in fee-based income.

TAMPA, Fla. — A new credit union gaming app is slated to show up in both Apple and Google app stores as early as Feb. 28 as a result of GTE Financial CU's inaugural "Got Game" competition.

Ameris Bancorp in Moultrie, Ga., has has agreed to buy Merchants and Southern Banks of Florida in Gainesville, along with a number of Bank of America branches.