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Lennar Homes and RBC Bank have formalized their unofficial agreement to help provide mortgages to Canadians buying homes in Southwest Florida.

Leaders of large community banks in the Southeast are keen on acquisitions, though their level of interest varies widely. Some, like Home BancShares in Arkansas, are eager to line up the next big deal. Others, including Bank of the Ozarks, seem content to steal lenders and open offices after several years of acquisitions.

CrossFirst Bank in Leawood, Kansas, has opened a new division to serve the oil, gas and energy markets and hired a team of five bankers with experience in this sector.

Ronald R. Reed has resigned as chief executive of Citizens Independent Bancorp in Logan, Ohio, and its bank unit.

An internal review at Goodwill Industries has concluded that hackers accessed customer payments data through a vendor-related weak spot.

For Apple, the timing couldn't be worse to launch a mobile wallet.

First South Bancorp in Washington, N.C., has become the latest community bank to buy branches from Bank of America.

Mt. Washington Savings Bank in Cincinnati is planning to convert from a mutual savings and loan association to a company partly owned by public shareholders.

Cardinal Financial in Tysons Corner, Va., has agreed to buy a Virginia branch from Virginia Heritage Bank.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Federally insured credit unions parlayed an improving economy in the second quarter of 2014 to the highest year-over-year loan growth since 2006, according to new analysis released Tuesday by the National Credit Union Administration.