Michael Fryzel has taken the yoke at NCUA. I use the word yoke because credit unions and the overall financial services marketplace are entering a unique and volatile time. This period will present credit unions and their regulators with challenges and, hopefully, opportunities.

The credit union community prides itself on giving members and most members of Congress warm and fuzzy feelings. It is more of a community than most industries with credit unions sharing best practices and how-tos. Being part of a cooperative movement yet competing in a tight marketplace puts credit unions...

As I'm sure many have experienced in recent months, my trip to NAFCU's annual conference in San Diego began with hanging around the airport for a few hours until my flight was so late that there was no way I'd make my connection. I was forced to reschedule for o-dark-30...

To make progress you must lay the groundwork and fulfill due diligence needs. Parents try to position their children to do better than they have; credit union boards and management try to provide members with what they want and need while anticipating what they will want and need in the...

DALLAS -- Texas Credit Union Commissioner Harold Feeney said his agency is working closely with the $2 billion Texans Credit Union after the institution has taken substantial hits in its construction and development portfolio.

I'm proud to say, despite traveling to Hoboken, N.J. every few weeks to the Credit Union Times nerve center, I had never been to New York City before CUNA's America's Credit Union Conference. I was hoping it was going to live up to the hype. But got what I expected:...

I typically take a glass-half-full, look-on-the-bright-side attitude. Even when situations stink--like putting together two large magazines two weeks in a row--I try not to get overwhelmed and just know it will get done.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- CUNA Mutual has been going gangbusters on is financial figures over the last few years, but this year is tough on everyone.