Missouri

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.