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Shelby Community has just 1,000 members and $5 million in assets and will complete the merger into 1st Liberty by the end of August.

WesBanco, which is based in West Virginia, will have more than $15 billion in assets when it completes the acquisition.

While loan growth continues to outpace competitors, Discover says it has been tightening its standards, given the late stage of the credit cycle.

KeyCorp, Regions Financial and others have sacrificed short-term profits to avoid being crushed by an anticipated decline in interest rates.

The Mississippi company has agreed to buy First Florida Bancorp in Destin, Fla., as part of its plan to build a community bank stretching across the Gulf region.

There have now been a record 10 credit union-bank merger deals in 2019.

Calling it the largest B2B trading platform in the world, Alibaba Group has opened Alibaba.com to small and medium-size U.S. businesses to reach an addressable market of $23.9 trillion.

With the industry continuing to consolidate, credit unions must address mergers in their strategic planning sessions so they are ready to be on either side of the deal when the opportunity arises.

Russia and its BRICS partners are developing cross-border alternatives to U.S.-dominated payments systems such as Swift, driven by the rise in cross-border trade and a desire to find non-dollar alternatives to international payments systems vulnerable to sanctions by the U.S. government.

Lawmakers who called for sweeping reforms after the massive breach are likely to scrutinize the settlement with regulators and continue to push for changes.