by GrafWebCUSO | Jul 18, 2017 | News
As Republicans push to overhaul Dodd-Frank, a new poll shows that voters favor strict regulation of financial institutions and the goals of the controversial CFPB. The poll was sponsored by Americans for Financial Reform and the Center for Responsible...
by GrafWebCUSO | Jul 18, 2017 | News
As the Senate publicly begins examining comprehensive tax reform, credit unions are warning the Finance Committee that retaining the income tax exemption amounts to a life and death issue. “Simply put, the tax exemption is an issue of survival for credit...
by GrafWebCUSO | Jul 18, 2017 | News
The Mortgage Bankers Association on Monday predicted a sharp increase in new home sales in June as homes on the market remain scarce. “The shortage of existing housing supply should keep pressure on prices and new homebuilding throughout the balance of this year...
by GrafWebCUSO | Jul 17, 2017 | News
Some financial service firms are “freely acknowledging” they stand to make more money servicing fewer clients as a result of the Labor Department’s fiduciary rule, which is expected to result in more retirement investors being moved to fee-based...
by GrafWebCUSO | Jul 17, 2017 | News
Is consumer mobile banking app growth starting to level off? For the second consecutive year, overall growth did not show a substantial gain according to the Austin, Texas-based Malauzai Software. However, even though there was only a 6% growth in mobile banking apps...
by GrafWebCUSO | Jul 17, 2017 | News
The regulatory battle between the CFPB and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency over the consumer agency’s final arbitration rule raged on Monday, with the OCC asking that the rule not be published until it conducted an independent review of the...