On December 30, 2024, Zeal Credit Union (“Zeal”), Livonia, Michigan, announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets and assume substantially all the liabilities of Gogebic Range Bank, Ironwood, Michigan, the wholly-owned subsidiary of West End Financial Corp.
Read More...On January 1, 2025, Gorham Savings Bank, Gorham, Maine and Maine Community Bank, Biddeford, Maine completed a merger of equals forming a mutual savings bank with nearly $3.0 billion in assets and 21 branches throughout Maine.
Read More...On January 2, 2024, Piedmont Federal Savings Bank, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, completed its acquisition of Wake Forest Bancshares, Inc., Wake Forest, North Carolina, in an all-cash “remutualization” transaction valued at approximately $14.9 million. As a remutualization transaction, the merger involved novel pricing issues regarding the acquisition of mutual holding companies with public stockholders by mutually owned institutions.
Read More...On December 26, 2023, Brendan Clegg appeared on the BankTalk podcast hosted by Remedy Consulting. On the episode, Brendan discussed the different types of enforcement actions, the ways that an enforcement action can develop, whether directors and officers can be subject to personal actions, common issues that trip up banks and their leadership, and other topics relevant to the bank enforcement process.
Read More...On December 21, 2023, Blue Federal Credit Union, a federally chartered credit union headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, successfully completed a private placement of $15.0 million of subordinated notes. The subordinated notes are intended to qualify as subordinated debt under NCUA rules and are considered regulatory capital in the calculation of Blue Federal Credit Union’s net worth ratio and risk-based capital ratio.
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