Missouri

ST. LOUIS — The Missouri Credit Union Association (MCUA) has embarked on a statewide consumer awareness campaign to increase its profile with consumers after learning that most residents of the "Show Me State" weren't familiar with CUs.

FERGUSON, Mo. — A branch of Alliance Credit Union is closed for the foreseeable future following the massive riots that took place here over night in the wake of the grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer who shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown during the summer.

The $5.8 billion-asset company said in a press release Wednesday that Shelley Seifert would fill the newly created role.

ST. LOUIS — A man wearing a ski mask used a sledgehammer to break into a South City credit union early Tuesday morning, according to police.

First Banks Inc. in St. Louis said that Terrance McCarthy will retire as president and CEO on Feb. 13. McCarthy will also step down from the board. Timothy Lake, president and CEO of banking unit First Bank, will succeed McCarthy.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. and SAN FRANCISCO — With the San Francisco Giants winning the World Series in seven games, Steven Stapp can fire up his grill for a victory barbecue.

UMB Financial in Kansas City, Mo., reported higher quarterly profit on strong commercial lending.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. and SAN FRANCISCO — As the World Series plays on, CEOs at credit unions in the home cities of the Royals and Giants have a friendly wager on the outcome.

Enterprise Financial Services in St. Louis reported lower quarterly earnings on a narrower net interest margin.

Enterprise Financial wants to show that mortgages made to legal immigrants who have taxpayer ID numbers are actually safe credit risks, and it is testing the philosophy at a branch in Kansas City, Kan.

Commerce Bancshares in Kansas City, Mo., reported stable third-quarter earnings as margin compression offset loan growth.

H&R Block, for the second time in a year, is finding it challenging to get out of banking.

Rebeca Romero Rainey, the CEO of Centinel Bank of Taos, will use part of her speech at a Federal Reserve conference on small banks this week to discuss the need for regulatory relief and her belief that community bankers have a duty to persevere under difficult circumstances.

Nope, it's not more money, at least not directly. The key to hiring a good loan officer, or retaining one, is said to be showing that your mortgage shop can close loans on time, act professionally and protect employees' reputations in the market.

FERGUSON, Mo. — A family restaurant near the center of where much of the violence in this city has occurred is still open, thanks in part to a $5,000 0% loan from Alliance CU.

Landmark Bank in Columbia, Mo., has raised $30 million through a private placement of common stock.

FERGUSON, Mo. — Staff from Alliance Credit Union are out Wednesday in this troubled city, walking through debris left behind by Tuesday night's chaos, asking business owners if they need a 0% loan.

Square and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has been in Ferguson, Mo., as part of the protests that followed the police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed African American teenager, earlier this month.

FERGUSON, Mo. — Although Alliance Credit Union's luck continues to hold out amid the riots with an office located at the center of the civil unrest here that is undamaged, local residents are far less fortunate.

FERGUSON, Mo. — All around Alliance Credit Union's office here, businesses have broken windows, knocked-down doors, and one has even been burned to the ground amid the riots that have followed the deadly shooting of a local young black man by a white police officer.