WASHINGTON-CUNA learned that the House Financial Services Committee plans to request a limited number of suggestions for regulatory relief from each of the federal financial services regulators. CUNA President and CEO Dan Mica wrote his board recommending that CUNA, via NCUA and in consultation with other credit union groups, send...

WASHINGTON-Communications is one of the most important functions of any trade association, including CUNA. Perhaps that is why Mark Wolff was selected by CUNA to work in its communications office nearly 11 years ago and has risen through the ranks to Senior Vice President of Communication for the trade group....

VIENNA, Va.-While CUNA is busy touting the efforts of its Renaissance Commission, the CEO of the largest credit union in the country-and CUNA member-is dead set against some of the recommendations in the report. CUNA's Board is supposed to put its seal of final approval on all, some, or none...

WASHINGTON-The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) penned a letter August 1 on behalf of the president warning that the White House prefers the House language regarding the homestead exemption to the more restrictive Senate version. The letter noted, "consideration of the Administration's views would be appreciated." "The Administration supports...

WASHINGTON-After former President Bill Clinton's ergonomics regulation was shot down by the new Congress following George W. Bush's administration, the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are going to bat again. Under the new Republican administration, the rule-if one is created-is expected to be less...

WASHINGTON-In the wake of the release of the Federal Reserve's banking fee study, credit union economists are predicting that credit unions are still a better deal for consumers than banks. Currently, credit unions are not included in the Fed's survey, but both CUNA and NAFCU expect to have their own...

TEMPLE HILLS, Md.-Acting NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar presented Rev. John Cherry with a federal charter for None Suffer Lack Federal Credit Union in a special ceremony last week. The federal credit union is the newest faith-based credit union in America, scheduled to officially open for business October 1. "The leadership...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-In line with Acting NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar's more cost efficient version of the agency, the NCUA Board voted unanimously to approve a resource conserving flexible examination program in conjunction with a quarterly call report process. According to the agency and the credit union trade groups, the savings to...