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BRIGHAM CITY, Utah–Box Elder Credit Union said it has now completed a year-long celebration of its 65^th anniversary after having sponsored 65 acts of kindness to its members and the community of Box Elder County throughout 2019.

MOSCOW—The Bank of Russia has initiated testing of stablecoins pegged to real estate under its regulatory sandbox program.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–A credit union employee picks up the phone. On the other end is the voice of the CEO requesting that money be transferred to a new vendor he says the credit union has just selected. The employee follows orders and makes the transfer. The funds go to a scammer. And the voice of the CEO? It wasn’t the CEO.

WASHINGTON–What to make of the yield curve has been much discussed in credit unions as to whether it’s a sure-fire signal of a recession to come or not the predictor it has been in the past.

KYIV, Ukraine.—Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice has approved a new set of financial standards, which were developed with significant support from senior experts at the World Council of Credit Unions/USAID Credit for Agriculture Producers (CAP) Project, according to the association.

ARLINGTON, Va.–Credit unions certainly had a few legislative victories in 2019, but other priorities that had looked promising when the year began never materialized, some of which were surprising, according to NAFCU’s Carrie Hunt.

NEW YORK–The bond market signals are flashing “a pretty good chance of a recession sometime in the next year or so,” according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.

MILWAUKEE, Wis.–QuantyPhi has released two videos explaining how loan participations can help credit unions. 

LOWELL, Mass.–During a two-week long toy drive, Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union collected hundreds of toys to support Toys for Local Children (TLC), an organization that has gathered donated toys and provided them to struggling families, shelters and fire victims in Middlesex and Essex County for the past 15 year