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Whether it's new loan products or the chance to make a first impression with potential members, the start of the academic year offers a host of growth opportunities.

Many in the payments industry insist that cash is becoming less important — but that doesn't mean it will ever go away.

A look back at some of the coverage from Credit Union Journal's special report for August.

Bank Iowa will gain a branch in a neighboring market when it completes the acquisition.

PNC has gone live on RippleNet, giving the blockchain company a major win in its effort to build a real-time cross-border payments network that includes large U.S. banks.

Farmers will pay $40 million for the bank, which is in an affluent area in northeast Ohio.

As the U.K. rapidly transitions toward a cashless society — with U.K. Finance predicting that by 2028, just 9% of payments will be in cash — even pocket money is going digital. And the disappearance of tactile interaction with cash changes how kids learn about budgeting.

Kristy Kim was an immigrant success story with a degree from Berkeley and a lucrative job — except her lack of credit history precluded her from getting a car loan. She started TomoCredit to help the many young folks who struggle to qualify for a credit card.

Streaming and ride-hailing services have become an entry point for cash-reliant customers in the Philippines to try electronic payments, according to a report by Visa Inc.

It took a few years for mobile wallets to get past the aura of just a "cool technology" looking for a problem to solve, but Google Pay and its peers are clearly finding their niche as a way to embed payments with customer engagement tools.