The Farm Credit system is the largest lender in agriculture. It wants an exemption from a new CFPB sunshine rule aimed at identifying discrimination in small business lending.
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The latest in a series of mergers that are remaking the business of farm credit in America will, in early July, bring together three lenders in the upper Midwest, AgStar Financial Services, Badgerland Financial, and 1st Farm Credit Services. The new Wisconsin-based institution, to be called Compeer Financial, will hold over $18 billion in assets and will be the country’s third-largest farm credit association.
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