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NEW YORK — As a powerful nor’easter buried much of the Northeast under heavy, wind-whipped snow, the first signs of impact weren’t just on highways and power lines—they were on credit union homepages, where “Closed Due to Weather” alerts replaced lobby hours and thousands of members shifted overnight to mobile apps, call centers and ATMs to manage their money from the dark.

KENNEWICK, WASH—A coalition representing dozens of the nation’s smallest credit unions is urging NCUA to rethink a key piece of its latest deregulation proposal, warning that reducing public visibility of member comments on proposed mergers could unintentionally hasten the decline of community-based institutions already fighting to survive.