Credit Union Industry News & Updates

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Sharing is Daring – NACUSO

By Nate AndersonPresident & CEOrekindle The Control Conundrum My local community hosts a Tuesday night “running group.” They run together, then go out for drinks and food afterward. Every week they do this.  I’ve known about this group for over a year and have yet to...

Proposed New and Renewal of Agency Information Collections; Request for Comments

AGENCY: National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). ACTION: Notice of submission to the Office of Management and Budget. SUMMARY: As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is submitting the following...

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),...

Fed Inflation Debate Heats Up

Federal Reserve officials engaged in a detailed debate about inflation while keeping the door open for a September announcement on the timing of balance-sheet reductions, according to minutes from their policy meeting in July. The minutes showed a majority...

CU Industry Watching After Varo Money Applies for Charter

Two credit union industry groups are keeping a close eye on one startup’s recent bank charter application to see whether fintechs that want to compete on their turf will land on the same regulatory playing field. The firm, Varo Money, is a San Francisco-based...

Former CU CEO Pleads Guilty to $466,000 Bank Fraud

It took federal investigators nearly four years to catch up to a former president/CEO who pleaded guilty Wednesday to 17 years of bank fraud that led to a loss of more than $466,000 at a Texas credit union. Susan Margaret Garza, 60, admitted in a U.S. District Court...

Credit Union Countersues Former Longtime CEO

When Gordon Simmons grew the Service Credit Union from $292 million to nearly $2.8 billion over his 20-year tenure, he was considered one of the industry’s most successful CEOs. But starting in 2015, Simmons rapidly fell from grace after starting an affair with...

Can Employers Fire Racists? Should They?

Is racism sufficient cause to fire someone from their job? In the wake of the August 12 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which three were killed and dozens injured, that’s the question buzzing in the brains of employers all over the...

U.S. Households Borrow at Fastest Pace of Expansion, Fed Says

(Bloomberg) -- American households increased their borrowing over the past year at the fastest pace of the U.S. economic expansion, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Consumer debt levels rose 4.5% in the year through June to $12.84 trillion, data...