By SARAH SNELL COOKE CU Times Washington Reporter ALEXANDRIA, Va.-In all the talk about the repeal of the Community Action Plan, it was easy to forget that anything else was accomplished at NCUA's December board meeting. In fact, several other items appeared on the agenda. The NCUA Board unanimously approved...

By SARAH SNELL COOKE CU Times Washington Reporter ALEXANDRIA, Va.-In all the talk about the repeal of the Community Action Plan, it was easy to forget that anything else was accomplished at NCUA's December board meeting. In fact, several other items appeared on the agenda. The NCUA Board unanimously approved...

WASHINGTON-Credit unions are catching the eyes of lawmakers and possibly the Small Business Administration (SBA) regarding the role they can play in providing services to small businesses in need following September 11. SBA Administrator Hector Barreto was recently questioned during a hearing of the House Small Business Committee, "90 Days...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-A warm fuzzy holiday feeling was certainly not the atmosphere of the final NCUA Board meeting of 2001. While the board breezed through the first nine items on the agenda, the final item, the repeal of the Community Action Plan (CAP), proved to be a real sticking point. Of...

WASHINGTON-Members of NAFCU's Board and senior staff were scheduled to meet with Federal Reserve Board officials last Thursday, after deadline, to present federal credit union issues to the super-regulator. Attending the meeting with Fed Governor Laurence Meyer and as many as 10 senior level staffers were NAFCU President and CEO...

WASHINGTON-While predicting that up to another one million Americans could find themselves out of work over the next few months, CUNA Vice President of Economics and Statistics Mike Schenk told attendees at the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) conference in Washington, D.C. November 29, unemployment probably will not reach the...

WASHINGTON-While banking representatives said they felt they did all they could to present clear privacy notices to consumers under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), improvements were a key focus of last week's workshop held by the GLBA regulators, including NCUA. The well-attended meeting was moved from the Federal Trade Commission Headquarters...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA Board Member Geoff Bacino has proposed the repeal of the Community Action Plan (CAP) as his recess term expires with the final recess of Congress. One senior official at the agency said it is a common belief around the halls of the agency that Bacino, with this move,...