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NAPERVILLE, Ill.--After more than 35 years of dedicated service to the Illinois credit union system, Melanie Murphy has retired from her role as executive director of the Illinois Credit Union Foundation, leaving an enduring legacy of leadership, mentorship, and service to credit unions across Illinois, the league said.

MIAMI—Mortgage delinquency rates climbed in most states during the first quarter of 2026, with several states seeing sharp increases that suggest growing financial strain on homeowners despite a still-resilient national housing market, according to a new analysis from personal finance company WalletHub.

GULFPORT, Miss.—A former employee of Keesler Federal Credit Union is scheduled to stand trial in October after being indicted on four counts of embezzlement involving funds she allegedly accessed through her position at the credit union, according to the Sun Herald.

DENVER—Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has vetoed SB26-134, the controversial interchange-fee bill that would have prohibited card issuers and payment networks from charging interchange on the sales-tax portion of transactions, handing credit unions, banks and payments companies a significant victory and avoiding what many feared would become another Illinois-style legal and operational battle.

LONDON—The rapid rise of real-time payments is fundamentally reshaping fraud risk for financial institutions and merchants, compressing the time available to detect suspicious transactions just as artificial intelligence is making fraud faster, more scalable and harder to identify, according to a new analysis from Noam Grinberg, chief risk officer for global enterprise at Nuvei.

WASHINGTON—Mortgage applications decreased 2.5% from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending May 29.

WASHINGTON--With NCUA Chairman Kyle Hauptman set to appear before the House Financial Services Committee Thursday, America's Credit Unions submitted comments to the committee addressing priorities for several issues before the committee and regulators.