Alabama

CU trade group credits the senator with a history of supporting community-based financial institutions.

Regulators cited "unsafe and unsound" practices at the credit union, which has assets of more than $76 million and turned a small profit in each of the last two years.

AloStar was formed in 2011 by an investor group that bought the failed Nexity Bank in Birmingham, Ala.

The Tennessee bank has agreed to pay nearly $85 million for Capstone Bancshares in Alabama.

The man who took 11 Alabama Credit Union employees hostage during an attempted robbery in January has reportedly told police he needed the money to pay for court costs in in a separate criminal case.

League representing Florida and Alabama credit unions will pay out more than $200,000 in dues rebates, bringing the grand total returned to members in recent years to more than $1.4 million.

Hispanic outreach program now includes 70 CUs, several state leagues.

Eight hostages were released and are all believed to be unharmed.

Regions Financial President and CEO Grayson Hall and the CEO of a Miami bank have been elected to the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

First Commonwealth Financial in Indiana, Pa., has hired a former Regions Financial executive to lead several of its consumer lending groups.