Butterfly Data are proud to have taken part in the Digital Sandbox Sustainability Cohort this year. Successful Companies, selected by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and City of London Corporation (COCL), were challenged to tackle problems in finance…

The credit union consolidation rate has held steady at about 3.5% a year for the past 40 years. The most common merger scenario has larger entities acquiring small and midsize credit unions. Analysts are speculating that pressures on the biggest credit unions will force many to consider merger strategies in the months to come.

In the first eight months of 2021, publicly announced mergers and acquisitions (M&A) were valued at more than $3.6 trillion globally and $1.8 trillion in the US according to Dealogic. Both numbers are the highest since 1995, when the data provider began its tracking.