by GrafWebCUSO | Oct 6, 2017 | News
Kenneth “Bunky” Holden, one of the first members of the Tewksbury Federal Credit Union and its former CEO, passed away Oct. 3. He was 81. Holden was one of the first 20 members to join the Tewksbury, Mass. credit union in 1960 and became its CEO/treasurer...
by GrafWebCUSO | Oct 6, 2017 | News
After more than a year of hand wringing, credit union officials said Friday that the CFPB’s payday loan rules will affect credit unions far less than they had feared. “Overall, based on our initial analysis and a conversation between Director Cordray and...
by GrafWebCUSO | Oct 5, 2017 | News
The U.S. economy is improving and unemployment rates are nearly back to pre-recession levels. This economic upswing has intensified an already competitive labor market where job vacancies and the inability to hire quickly can have negative business...
by GrafWebCUSO | Oct 5, 2017 | News
Rhoda Pohina, a former assistant manager, was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday for stealing more than $170,000 from the $14.3 million Harrison District No. 2 Federal Credit Union in Colorado Springs, according to the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s...
by GrafWebCUSO | Oct 4, 2017 | News
A U.S. District Court Judge in New York dismissed an employment discrimination lawsuit Tuesday brought by a former CEO who claimed a credit union allegedly didn’t hire him because he had Crohn’s disease. Sean Jelen claimed in his civil lawsuit that the...
by GrafWebCUSO | Oct 4, 2017 | News
More than 80 of Puerto Rico’s island chartered and insured credit unions—known as cooperativas—are now operating during reduced hours in order to conserve fuel for their generators, José Julián Ramírez Ruiz, executive director of...
