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WASHINGTON–The CFPB has taken action against two credit card add-on product vendors – Affinion Group Holdings, Inc., Affinion’s affiliated companies, and Intersections Inc. – for unfairly charging consumers for credit card add-on benefits they did not receive.

HANSCOM AFB, Mass.–Hanscom FCU is absorbing  the $6.4-million Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Employees FCU via merger.

DUBLIN, Ireland–This country’s credit unions are once again being pilloried in the news media for expenses related to sending a delegation to the World Council of Credit Unions/CUNA’s America’s Credit Union Conference in Denver next week.

WASHINGTON—While CUNA supports the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed rulemaking regarding DOE program integrity and improvement, the trade association is concerned the proposal may have some negative effects on credit unions.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.–Actress Ashley Judd will appear as the keynote speaker at VolCorp’s Forum 15 later this year.

WASHINGTON—CUNA is formally asking the CFPB to provide a temporary safe harbor from the enforcement of integrated disclosure requirements for mortgage loan transactions under the bureau’s TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosures (TRID) regulation.

ARLINGTON, Va.–NAFCU told NCUA it can go even further in providing regulatory relief as part of the changes the agency has proposed to Part 745 of its Rules and Regulations governing share insurance coverage for IOLTAs.

SOUTHFIELD, Mich.–The Michigan Credit Union League’s board has voted unanimously to tell CUNA that it believes state leagues should maintain local control of their names and dues formulas, but that it also supports giving credit unions the option to join the league and CUNA separately if so desired.

WASHINGTON–Not surprisingly, the credit union trade groups and NCUA have opposite reactions to a GAO recommendation that the federal regulator be given authority to oversee third party technology vendors to credit unions.