Billion-dollar credit union buys a bank - again

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 4:44 p.m. February 14, 2018
  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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FORT MYERS — Achieva Credit Union has acquired Fort Myers-based Preferred Community Bank — the second time in the past three years the credit union has made a whole bank purchase in Southwest Florida. It's also the third time a credit union has bought a Southwest Florida bank since 2015.

 

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