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WASHINGTON—Testifying before the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit today, NCUA Chairman Debbie Matz said the agency “leads” financial institution regulators in budget transparency.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.–Here is how NAFCU and CUNA are responding to the several items voted on at the July 23 NCUA board meeting, at which fixed asset rule, agency budget and performance of the Temporary Corporate Credit Union Stabilization Fund were all discussed.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.­–While Board Member Mark McWatters, as expected, cast the dissenting vote in the 2-1 NCUA budget vote, he did acknowledge that progress has been made on some of the budget-transparency issues he identified as issues in remarks made at the November 2014 board meeting, when he also voted against the 2015 budget and read a long statement sharply critical of NCUA’s budget process.