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Recent data from NCUA showed a lot of positives for the industry, but it also revealed some potentially worrisome trends.

Royal Bank of Canada's investment-banking division will advise on stock sales and arranging takeovers for companies in the marijuana industry, joining Bank of Montreal's BMO Capital Markets in serving an industry that didn't exist five years ago.

The sale should increase Shore's capital levels and allow it to expand its banking activities.

A U.S. District judge in Scranton denied the student lender's motion to dismiss the suit.

Along with a core conversion, the Twin Cities-area credit union deployed new loan origination systems and online and mobile banking platforms.

In the last two years, the Georgia-based institution has returned $25 million to members.

Colony will also gain a loan production office in Atlanta when the transaction closes.

The two institutions had to change their names after a law passed in the Hawkeye State that forbid CUs from using a state university in their names.

With control of the House changing hands in January, credit unions are set to shift their focus from regulatory relief to cybersecurity and fighting CRA.

Neither Amazon nor Starbucks could be described as a traditional retailer. But they both use their shared headquarters city as a playground for developing digital and in-store innovations that all merchants and payment companies will have to respond to the years ahead.