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.

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Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Programs

( printed page 18304) AGENCY: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Treasury; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and the National Credit Union Administration. ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. SUMMARY: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC),...

Chartering and Field of Membership

( printed page 17769) AGENCY: National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). SUMMARY: The NCUA Board (Board) proposes to amend the associational common bond provisions of its chartering and field of membership (FOM) rules. The proposed FOM amendment would clarify that...

Sunshine Act Meetings

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Puerto Rico Rejects $1 Billion Loan Offer From Creditors

Puerto Rico rejected an offer from Electric Power Authority bondholders to lend the utility $1 billion in the wake of Hurricane Maria, saying the deal would hamper the agency’s recovery. Investors holding about $3 billion of power utility bonds said the...

NCUA Approves 24 Mergers in August

The NCUA approved 24 mergers in August, the highest number of consolidations in one month so far this year. In July, the federal agency approved only 11 mergers. Five credit unions were approved to merge because of their poor financial condition, and two because of...

Republican Plan Still Leaves Credit Union Tax Exemption At Risk

The Republican tax reform blueprint released Wednesday does not specify how tax cuts in the plan would be paid for, so credit unions that are carefully guarding their tax exemption aren’t out of the woods yet. The plan would cut taxes for businesses, the middle...

Phishing Attacks Against Financial Orgs Doubles in One Quarter

The volume of phishing attacks targeting the financial industry nearly doubled in the second quarter of this year and is the largest quarterly volume Charleston, S.C. firm PhishLabs has ever observed In its Q2 2017 Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report PhishLabs...

Former CU Office Manager Faces Sentencing

A former credit union office manager will be sentenced in December after she admitted to embezzling nearly $180,000 from a failed New York credit union. Norma Gold, 57, of Eldred, Pa., pleaded guilty to false entries in federal credit union reports, last week in U.S....