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Among other accomplishments, Dresang engineered a merger that brought more than a dozen credit unions together to create Community First.

J. Mark McWatters, chairman of NCUA, and Rick Metsger, a board member, also said that Congress should give the agency more authority over field of membership for underserved areas.

Merchants are often the last in the payments ecosystem to know when card fraud occurs, and their losses tend to escalate in the meantime.

East Windsor, N.J.-based McGraw Hill Federal Credit Union will merge into PenFed, the latest in a series of growth moves from the nation's third-largest credit union.

The Connecticut bank, which has been unable to complete a pending deal for an SBA platform, has managed to build the business anyway.

The regional bank, which recently agreed to buy SunTrust, is co-developing a game to help elementary-school kids learn to read.

Credit union executives are hitting the Hill on Wednesday to discuss their concerns with lawmakers as CUNA's Governmental Affairs Conference ends.

The combined bank would be chartered in North Carolina, with the FDIC serving as its lead federal regulator, N.C. Banking Commissioner Ray Grace says. The merger partners had other options, including the Fed and the OCC.

Big bank mergers have historically been a catalyst for startups. Experts say it could happen again.

Loyal Trust Bank will have a large number of Asian-American investors and board members.