Montana

The Montana-based institution will open its doors as Clearwater later this year, a move leadership hopes will better connect it with consumers in other parts of the state.

The North Dakota company agreed to buy the $90 million-asset Prairie Mountain Bank.

Two recent campaigns show credit unions can still make an impact with old-school marketing, but some fear too few institutions are utilizing data in ways that can target those messages for maximum effect.

The Montana company agreed to buy Heritage Bancorp for $241 million.

BrightWise is a joint venture among the Iowa CU League, its holding company and LMG Security. The initiative aims to teach credit union professionals how to better protect their institutions.

FNB Bancorp in Utah, which is being sold to Glacier Bancorp, decided that the Montana bank's decentralized model would save jobs and give its management team more autonomy.

The Montana company will more than double its assets in Utah when it buys FNB Bancorp.

The Sidney, Mont.-based institution distributed the payments earlier this week.

Regulators have approved the proposed merger of Big Sky Federal Credit Union into Billings Federal Credit Union.

McCone County Federal Credit Union has added roughly $9 million of assets with the merger of Fallon County Federal Credit Union.