Illinois

The company will pay $195 million for its first retail operations in the city.

The company has agreed to buy Albany Bancshares, which has four branches near the Iowa border.

North Side Community FCU served the underbanked before it joined Great Lakes earlier this month.

The Iowa company will pay QCR Holdings about $59 million for Rockland Bank and Trust.

Andigo CU said it would merge into Consumers CU, creating the fifth-largest credit union in Illinois.

Once the merger between Infinity FCU and Vibrant CU is completed, the combined institution will have 17 branches across five states.

Byline Bancorp is in discussions to buy Parkway Bank and Trust, according to a local publication.

The company agreed to buy the parent of Countryside Bank for $90.5 million.

The Wisconsin regional agreed to buy the parent of First National Bank in Staunton for $76 million in cash.

The former mutual, which had faced pressure from an activist investor, agreed to be sold to Corporate America Family Credit Union.

The purchase of Ben Franklin Bank is the latest deal in a year that has seen a record number of CUs buying out the competition.

The bench upheld a lower court's ruling that the plaintiff did not suffer an "injury-in-fact." Several judges previously made similar rulings.

Credit unions can usually limit attrition of consumer accounts after a bank acquisition, but maintaining relationships with business customers is the bigger challenge.

Kelly McDonough will take over next month, nine months after the $289 million-asset shop's former CEO left to lead a CUSO.

A Wisconsin credit union's agreement to acquire a small Chicago bank, the eighth credit union-bank deal this year, led bankers to once again call for policymakers to slow the trend. A credit union trade group complained that banks are trying to stifle competition.

The company will pick up five branches as part of the $48 million deal.

Charges against Stephen Calk indicate he lied to regulators about what he knew when he approved loans to Paul Manafort, as well as his interest in landing a job in the Trump administration.

Consolidation activity was ho-hum for most of April before a burst of transactions — and notable ones at that — were announced in the month's final week.

Shelley Seifert had been the bank's chief operating officer.

Luis A. Reyes Jr. takes over for the Rev. Arnold O. Pierson, who served as president since the institution opened in June 2016.