The NCUA should expand the amount of information it gives potential merger partners on the membership of the credit union, NAFCU President/CEO Fred Becker wrote the agency.

The NCUA yielded $1.5 billion from its first guaranteed note transaction of the year, the agency announced on Thursday.

NAFCU has promoted four of its key executives to vice president, the association announced today.

The financial crisis that wreaked havoc on the economy was "the result of human action and inaction, not of Mother nature or computer models gone haywire," a government commission that spent 18 months studying the crisis concluded.

The Senate Banking Committee will have five new members during this session, as a result of assignments announced by the party leaderships on Thursday.

In separate letters, CUNA and NAFCU both urged the House Financial Services Committee to raise the cap on member business loans.

If a journey of 1,000 miles does begin with one step, then NCUA Chairman Debbie Matz's letter to Congress on supplemental capital could be the beginning of a long trip.

As credit union executives prepare to come to Washington next month to lobby Congress, here's a gentle reminder: Mind your manners.