Wyoming

With desirable merger partners hard to find, some credit unions are starting to look well beyond their home base.

Holiday loans are up significantly at Blue Federal Credit Union this year thanks to improvements to the CU's mobile and online banking apps that allowed members to apply for -- and fund -- loans in a matter of minutes.

Monday’s eclipse is an astronomer’s dream, but CUs’ responses range from trying to make hay while the sun isn’t shining to preparing for potential disaster.

The $23 million-asset credit union has also extended an existing partnerhsip with Fiserv for credit and debit processing, and more.

Steven Pearson will suceed Cindy Bennet, who is retiring after 18 years at the credit union.

The president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank is best known for her dissenting votes on monetary policy, but that's not the only way she stands out. Her background as a farmer and former bank examiner gives her a unique perspective among Fed officials.

Middleburg Financial in Middleburg, Va., is facing pressure from its biggest shareholder to find a buyer.

First Express of Nebraska in Gering and First Wyoming Bancorp. in Laramie have agreed to merge. The companies did not disclose the price of the deal, which is expected to close by mid-2016.

WyHy Federal Credit Union and Western Vista Federal Credit Union have formed a managing CUSO known as UProsper Services Group, LLC, which they said will allow the CUs to collaborate as equal partners on a number of joint ventures.

Nationwide the number of bank branches fell by about 1.7% last year. But some cities and states were hit harder than others, according to data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and research firm BankRegData.

Crazy Woman Creek Bancorp in Buffalo, Wyo., has exited the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

ANB Bank in Denver has agreed to buy Capital West Bank in Laramie, Wyo.

Cowboy State Bank in Ranchester, Wyo., has been freed from a written agreement with the Federal Reserve Board.

New research from American Banker reveals that bank technology spending is starting to increase, a sign of health for industry.

The Fed had reached the agreements in 2010 with America's Community Bank in Blue Springs, Mo., and First Capital West Bankshares in Laramie, Wyo.

The proposal made to require all banks located within the U.S. to report interest payments to nonresident alien depositors would be detrimental to economic growth in local communities and expose those nonresident depositors to possible criminal activity aided by unstable and corrupt foreign governments.

Credit unions in Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming have voted to combine their three state credit union leagues, the latest consolidation of state trade associations.

A new group formed to buy failing banks plans to use its recent deal for tiny, well-capitalized Palisades National Bank as a springboard for further acquisitions.