ARLINGTON Va.—Credit union member growth in March increased to 3.3% year over year while share growth fell slightly to 4.4% year over year according to NAFCU’s May Economic & CU Monitor.
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WASHINGTON—NAFCU and CUNA are closely following hearings on both sides of Congress this week, but none more important than Thursday’s Senate Banking Committee mark-up on the “Financial Regulatory Improvement Act of 2015.”
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—One of the primary reasons The Finest Federal Credit Union was able to officially open its doors last week is that is operating with free data processing services for the first two years of its life.
MADISON, Wis. – Credit unions looking for information and tools to help members with medical debt now have an added aid, a Medical Debt Toolkit that has been released by the National Credit Union Foundation (the Foundation).
ALBANY, N.Y.— Bethpage FCU has joined with New York’s regulators and other lenders as part of an effort to monitor and maintain vacant properties in order to fight neighborhood blight.
PHILADELPHIA—Sb1 FCU has formed a “Go Green” team designed to help reduce the credit union’s overall carbon footprint, improve the workplace environment, and encourage other businesses to go green, according to the Pennsylvania CU Association.
OSHKOSH, Wis.—Chatter Yak!, the social media and marketing agency, is offering bi-monthly Social Media Chats, webinars that the company said are designed to help financials maximize their social media investments.
MADISON, Wis.—For the first time in credit union history, CU savings balances rose above the $1-trillion mark, according to CUNA Mutual Group’s latest Credit Union Trends Report.
ARLINGTON, Va.—NAFCU is contending that financial institutions of all kinds would be better off if the Independent Community Bankers of America spent more time lobbying for regulatory relief instead of attacking the CU tax exemption.
HAMPSHIRE, U.K.—New research indicates the cost of data breaches will rise to $2.1 trillion globally by 2019, increasing to almost four times the estimated cost of breaches in 2015.