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NCUA awards $2M in grants to 203 low-income credit unions

NCUA awards $2M in grants to 203 low-income credit unions

The NCUA awarded $2 million in grants to 203 low-income credit unions, funding from the agency’s Community Development Revolving Loan Fund (CDRLF). CUNA strongly supports full funding for the CDRLF, and successfully fought to [...]

NAFCU to gain CECL insights at resource group meeting

NAFCU to gain CECL insights at resource group meeting

NAFCU's Andrew Morris today will attend the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) Transition Resource Group for Credit Losses to gain insights on issues that might arise when companies and organizations implement the current expected credit [...]

A transformational leader

A transformational leader

Joe Newberry believes in the power of transformational leadership. This leadership approach takes a great organization and makes it excellent, guiding the management team and employees alike toward becoming more innovative in their thinking. It’[...]

‘Fixed’ rates on open-end loans

‘Fixed’ rates on open-end loans

Has your credit union advertised or disclosed rates on open-end loans as “fixed” without specifying a time period that the rate will be fixed? If so, you’ll likely have to maintain that fixed rate [...]

NCUA bans four former credit union employees

NCUA bans four former credit union employees

The NCUA issued October prohibition notices Wednesday that banned four former employees, including two CEOs, from participating in the affairs of any federally insured financial institution. Savannah Yang, a former employee of the $2.2 [...]

The multicultural movement of YouTube

The multicultural movement of YouTube

As the push to (rightly) include a wider variety of people and perspectives continues to make its ways through film, television, and print, what we’re already seeing on our computers and smartphones is making [...]

Zombies, hardware stores and your brand

Zombies, hardware stores and your brand

Our family has always gone all-in for Halloween (think the Griswold house from “Christmas Vacation”). Spooky lights, tombstones, fog machine—the works. We’ve also added, over the years, several animatronic zombies. Unfortunately a few [...]

“Beware: Cyber scares!”

“Beware: Cyber scares!”

Happy Halloween, Compliance Friends! With the rise of social media, there seems to be a day and/or month for nearly every thing, occasion or cause. However, the observation of October as National Cybersecurity Awareness [...]

Recording now available of CUNA’s RDC litigation webinar

Recording now available of CUNA’s RDC litigation webinar

CUNA members can now access a free recording of a webinar outlining the latest development in patent litigation brought against several credit unions involving remote deposit capture (RDC) technology. The live version of the webinar [...]