Credit Union Industry News & Updates

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Records Preservation Program and Appendices-Record Retention Guidelines; Catastrophic Act Preparedness Guidelines

AGENCY: National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). SUMMARY: On March 11, 2026, the NCUA (or `agency') published a proposed rule to solicit comments on ways to improve and update the vital records preservation program regulation and accompanying guidelines. Based on...

Dependent Care and Board Member Expense Reimbursement

AGENCY: National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). SUMMARY: The NCUA Board is amending its regulations concerning the reimbursement of reasonable expenses for federal credit union (FCU) officials. The amendment revises the definition of compensation to exclude...

Preemption-Federal Credit Union Non-Interest Charges and Fees

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Introduction A. Background Federal credit unions (FCUs) routinely rely on third parties for a range of products and services.[1] In particular, third parties are crucial to FCUs' provision of payment cards, which are vital and deeply...

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....

Trio Pleads Guilty To Multistate ATM Theft Spree

Three Massachusetts men pleaded guilty last week to orchestrating a sophisticated multistate ATM robbery spree, netting them $500,000, including more than $170,000 stolen from a credit union ATM. David Barker, 39, Efrain Montero, 41, and Jonathan Santos, 35, of...

Federal Judge Approves Home Depot Data Breach Settlement

U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash on Friday approved a settlement between Home Depot and financial institutions, including credit unions, in a suit filed in the wake of a 2014 data breach at the retailer. Several state credit union leagues and CUNA were plaintiffs in...

Summit Credit Union Files Class-Action Suit Against Equifax

Madison, Wis.-based Summit Credit Union has filed a class-action lawsuit against Equifax on behalf of credit unions for damages related to the credit-reporting agency’s giant data breach disclosed earlier this month. The suit claims Equifax failed to secure its...

First CU Communication Coming From Decimated Puerto Rico

JetStream FCU branch in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Image taken Friday, Sept. 22, 2017 Jeanne Kucey, president/CEO of the $196 million JetStream Federal Credit Union released the following statement to CU Times regarding the status of their Carolina, Puerto Rico branch...