Credit Union Industry News & Updates

The Credit Union & Banking worlds are changing faster today than they ever have. Keep informed about what’s going on in the industry.

WHAT’S GOING ON AT CREDIT UNIONS?

Third-Party Servicing of Indirect Vehicle Loans

( printed page 14484) AGENCY: National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). SUMMARY: The NCUA Board (Board) is seeking comment on a proposed rule that would remove the NCUA's unnecessarily prescriptive regulation regarding third-party servicing of indirect vehicle...

Advocacy in Action – NACUSO

Why NACUSO Shows Up in Washington Each year, thousands of credit union leaders gather in Washington, D.C. for the Governmental Affairs Conference (GAC). While the conference is known for its energy, scale, and tradition, at its core GAC represents something far more...

Sunshine Act Meetings

This site displays a prototype of a “Web 2.0” version of the daily Federal Register. It is not an official legal edition of the Federal Register, and does not replace the official print version or the official electronic version on GPO’s govinfo.gov. The documents...

Readers Discuss Merger Issues

Issues surrounding credit union mergers, including misled members of merging credit unions and the NCUA's proposed merger rules, got readers talking this past week. Find out what they had to say about that and other credit union news here.

House Passes CHOICE Act, Senate Action Unlikely

The House on Thursday passed House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling’s (R-Texas) bill to overhaul the Dodd-Frank Act; the bill now goes to the Senate, where it is expected to die. The House passed the measure 233-186, with no Democrats supporting it and...

Mobile Banking Becoming Default Digital Standard

More than half of active digital banking users plug into mobile regularly and for some financial institutions, the percentage is even better than 70%, according to the Austin, Texas-based Malauzai Software. For its May Monkey Insights report Malauzai, a mobile and...

Senate Taking Slow Route to Dodd-Frank Overhaul

As the House prepared to pass a Republican plan to overhaul Dodd-Frank, Senate Banking Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Id.) said Thursday that his committee won’t produce its bill for at least several months. And the goal, Crapo said, is to produce a bipartisan package...

Did You Know? CU Edition

I have a lot of questions for credit union executives, marketers, tellers and pro- and anti-credit union lobbyists. And for this column I’m taking a break from Dodd-Frank, peer-to-peer payment trends and any credit union employee that has been busted for fraud...