ALEXANDRIA, Va.–A conference that will “talk about what nobody else talks about” is now just around the corner.
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LOS ANGELES–Firefighters First CU is seeking donations to its Fire Family Foundation to provide assistance to the thousands of firefighters battling the ongoing wildfires in California.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif.–Kern Federal Credit Union is changing its name. Effective Feb. 1, 2019, it will be Strata Credit Union.
MARLBOROUGH, Mass.–The Cooperative Credit Union Association said it has retained a new search firm as it launches a new search for a CEO.
ENTERPRISE, Ala.–A former loan officer at IAM Community Federal Credit Union has been given a 30-month sentence for theft from a financial institution.
DUBLIN, Ireland–While credit unions in the U.S. celebrate not only not making any more corporate stabilization payments and even receiving a refund, credit unions in Ireland aren’t so fortunate. The country’s credit union regulator has announced Irish CUs will have to pay a fifth stabilization levy in 2019, according to Minister for Finance Paschal Donohue.
WASHINGTON—The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has issued a final update to clarify the effective date for its current expected credit loss (CECL) standard.
WASHINGTON–The Federal Reserve said that in 2019 it will review its strategies, tools and communication practices it uses to pursue its congressionally assigned mandate of maximum employment and price stability.
WASHINGTON—NAFCU has joined ten other trade associations representing servicemembers, foreign service officers, federal employees, Realtors and moving companies in sending a letter to Senate leadership urging them to advance S.998, the Moving Americans' Privacy Protection Act, which would help protect personal information of American servicemembers and foreign service personnel who are moving back into the United States from overseas.
ALBANY, N.Y.–CAP COM Federal Credit Union is partnering with Hannaford Supermarkets to feed 350 families this Thanksgiving. For the past six years, Hannaford Supermarkets has generously supported the CAP COM Cares Foundation’s Sharing the Harvest Thanksgiving program, the credit union said.