Credit Union Industry News & Updates

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Renewal of Agency Information Collections for Comments Request: Proposed Collections

AGENCY: National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). ACTION: Notice and request for comments. SUMMARY: The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) will submit the following information collection requests to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and...

Community Development Revolving Loan Fund

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Table of Contents Basic Information Eligibility Program Description Eligible Activities Application Contents and Format Submission Requirements and Deadlines Application Review Information Award Notices Post-Award Requirements and...

Beyond Processing | Core As A Strategic Enablement Platform – NACUSO

By Jennifer BerryVise President of Core Conversions and ConsultingSynergent For years, credit unions have viewed the core primarily as a transactional processing system—the operational engine responsible for maintaining accounts, posting transactions, balancing...

3 Trends Driving Retirement Planning in the ‘New Normal’

Advisors’ most successful clients learned their formative investing lessons in the late 20th century—a “perfect storm” of favorable demographics and economic trends. But the past decade revealed starkly different conditions. This...

InsurTech Startup Gets Boost for Smartphone-Only Policies

Sure, one of the latest entrants into the "insure-a-thing" vertical, announced this week that it raised $8 million in Series A funding, which the New York City- and Los Angeles-based InsurTech startup intends to use to grow its product and marketing outreach. Run...

5 Best & Worst States for Keeping More Retirement Income

When you’re looking for a potential retirement spot, keep taxes high on the criteria—since whether a state has its own income tax, and if so what it taxes, can have a big impact on how much money you’ll have left to spend after April 15 has...

Most Websites Are No Match for a Bot Attack: Study

A new study developed by Distil Networks and the Online Trust Alliance revealed 95% of top websites across different verticals, including financial services, are no match against advanced persistent and damaging bots. The survey found that while an average of 16% of...

Stealing From 12 CUs: Former Pot Pres. Pleads Guilty

The former president of the Oregon Retailers of Cannabis Association pleaded guilty last week to stealing more than $700,000 from a dozen credit unions and a bank. From January 2014 to July 2016, Nicholas J. Saulsberry, 30, created websites that claimed to be...

Get Ready: CNP Fraud to Hit $71 Billion Over Next Five Years

Merchants could lose $71 billion to card-not-present fraud over the next five years, and North America, the Far East and China will soon account for 80% of that fraud, according to new data from Juniper Research.  The U.S. shift to EMV cards and delays in...