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Banco Bradesco said it will use the acquired bank to expand its investment offerings in the United States.

Tandem Bank has approval from the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance as its aims to become the state's first new bank since the financial crisis.

Community banks in the state have struggled to attract the funds to meet surging loan demand, but that could change now that a new law has made it easier for them to accept government deposits.

Las Vegas-based institution said its first-quarter net income was down about 21% from a year earlier.

MidFlorida Credit Union has agreed to buy the $730 million-asset Community Bank & Trust of Florida in Ocala.

The Yankton, S.D.-based institution can now serve 18 counties across two states.

Two attorneys told a credit union audience the growing wave of marijuana legalization could have just as big an impact on financial institutions that don't serve the cannabis industry as those that do.

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.

The Capitola, Calif.-based institution reached the milestone a few months after acquiring another credit union.

The tech company denied allegations from Bessemer System Federal Credit Union regarding security issues and other problems with Fiserv's services.