Missouri

Having been forced to cancel in-person events because of the pandemic, leagues representing CUs in Kansas, Missouri and Illinois have joined forces for a three-day event next month.

Among other changes, the law allows state regulators to accept NCUA examination results in lieu of exams from local regulators.

The Kansas City-area institution has sponsored the NFL’s Chiefs since 2016, but became its official banking partner in 2019. The timing couldn’t have been better.

The company will pay $24 million in cash for Central Federal Bancshares.

Academy Bank in Kansas City, Mo., which shuttered nearly a quarter of its branches between 2015 and 2018, is now in expansion mode. Its CEO explains his renewed affinity for brick and mortar.

The Arkansas company will pay $434 million for Landrum Co., which also has branches in Oklahoma and Texas.

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

The city, among the Midwest's most vibrant C&I markets, is luring community banks, as well as giants like PNC and JPMorgan Chase.

Over the past two years, Uma Wilson's strategy took a program that had been losing customers on a year-over-year basis and transformed it into the fastest-growing issuer of Visa cards in the region.

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

The disaster has caused billions of dollars in damages across several Midwestern states.

The company will open its first office in Iowa after buying the business from Bankers Trust.

The Illinois-based credit union has broadened its field of membership to include two Missouri counties and issued another dividend.

Bill Schirmer, president and CEO of Evansville Teachers FCU, will serve a three-year term on a panel for the Federal Reserve Board of St. Louis.

Members of District 8 Highway Employees CU have approved a proposal to become part of Metro Credit Union.

The Lee's Summit, Mo.-based institution has paid out $350,000 over the last five years to members.

Reliance Bancshares was in a position to reject five buyout offers over the course of a year before it got one it liked.

The Iowa company will pay $94 million for a bank with five branches and $727 million in loans.

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.

Mike Walsh, former CEO of Jefferson County Bancshares, has become a director at St. Louis Bank.