WASHINGTON - The national payday loan industry appears to have taken its fight with Martin Eakes, the CEO of the $184 million Self-Help Credit Union, from being a legislative and regulatory argument at the state level to being the subject of an attack from a well-connected conservative think tank. Writing...

MADISON, Wis. - CUNA Mutual Group has signed a letter of intent to sell its CUNA Mutual Mortgage Corp. to PHH Mortgage, a subsidiary of the $9 billion PHH Corporation. Should all of the deal's conditions be met, CUNA Mutual anticipates closing the deal by the end of the year....

BATON ROUGE, La. - As credit unions along the Gulf Coast from Mobile to New Orleans continue to work on the second and third stages of recovery from the storm, the recovery effort itself has become a part of their headaches. Two of the hard hit ones, the $209 million...

WASHINGTON - Credit unions seeking to aid lower income members would be wise to investigate opening a relationship with Pay Rent Build Credit, a key tracker of consumer payment data which includes such items as rent and utility payments and other sources of credit history which are not traditionally tracked...

WASHINGTON - In what has become a regular feature on the credit card industry landscape, four large retail associations have filed suit against Visa and MasterCard, alleging collusion and unfair trade practices in the setting of interchange rates on credit and debit card transactions. The four associations are the National...

ARLINGTON, Va. - Hurricanes Katrina and Rita reigned death and destruction across the Gulf States but they appear to have given a shot in the arm to credit union shared branching nationwide. According to executives with all three of the nation's shared branching networks, the nation's most recent bout of...

ARLINGTON, Va. - The high premiums which have characterized purchases of credit union card portfolios for the past few years may be a thing of the past - at least for now, according to card portfolio brokers and some buyers. Rising interest-rates combined with the relatively inflexible nature of the...

DULUTH, Ga. - When two credit unions in Louisiana and one in Mississippi found themselves unexpectedly reeling in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in September 2005 they found they were doing so blindly. With headquarters' buildings shattered or flooded out, branches closed and communications across the region either patched or...