Strong Mortgage Market Expected to Survive Rate Hikes

​Even as higher interest rates are expected to reduce demand for mortgage refinancings, credit unions expect strong real estate volume from buyers seeking mortgages and owners tapping into their equity. Credit union officers and industry analysts credit a...

NCUA Sets New Call Report Deadlines

The NCUA announced a new call report schedule Tuesday that is intended to set a standard deadline for the reports and to give credit unions more time to file them. Beginning with the Dec. 31, 2016, reporting cycle, federally insured, natural-person credit unions will...

10 States With the Happiest Workers

It’s no secret that some people love their jobs, while others are counting down the years, months and days (or even minutes and seconds) to retirement.  While there are probably almost as many reasons for that variation as there are workers, career test...

Credit Unions Not Too Small for Cybersecurity Attacks

Credit union management should not assume they are too small to serve as targets in distributed denial of service and ransomware attacks, according to a cybersecurity expert. Ashley McAlpine, fraud prevention manager of Des Moines, Iowa-based payments processor TMG...