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ORLANDO, Fla.–Member credit unions of the League of Southeastern Credit Unions and Georgia Credit Union Affiliates have voted in favor of a merger. 
The League of SECUs, which serves credit unions in Alabama and Florida and which was created by a merger of the respective leagues a decade ago, will be the surviving organization. 

WASHINGTON—A provision in the Economic Mobility Act of 2019 that would repeal the 21% excise tax imposed on certain not-for-profits’ fringe benefits and compensations plans that has been passed by the House Ways and Means Committee, a move that has drawn praise from NAFCU.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.–By a 2-1 vote, the NCUA board has voted to again delay the effective date for its risk-based capital rules, pushing back to Jan. 1, 2022 rules that were to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2020.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.–Prior to casting his dissenting vote against delaying NCUA’s risk-based capital rules any further, NCUA Board Member Todd Harper conducted a vigorous hour-long questioning of NCUA staff, raising prior statements made by those staff members that seemed to run counter to their new positions, probed for why a rule that applies to a tiny number of CUs is being pushed back again, and questioned why NCUA is trailing other regulators in taking action by nearly a decade.