NCUA and NASCUS have shown their distinct differences pertaining to the structure of the federal deposit insurance system in comment letters to Treasury on the reconfiguring of the financial services regulators.

Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) reportedly plans to resign his seat by year's end.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson finds the British, single financial regulator model appealing but industry figures have argued otherwise.

The NCUA Board last week approved a higher than initially anticipated increase in its budget following an agreement on a bargaining contract between NCUA management and the National Treasury Employees Union.

Three years ago when New York Police Department Deputy Inspector Paul McCormack and Retired Sargent Kevin Madden traveled with their Gaelic Football club to play the Dublin Guards, they did not imagine they would come back with the mission to establish a credit union.

Efforts to alleviate the troubled mortgage market and head off future problems with the subprime market are keeping the congressional schedule full these days.

NASCUS Chairman George Reynolds, senior deputy commissioner of the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, has been elected chairman of the State Financial Regulators Roundtable.

The increasing cost of gas and home heating is the greatest single factor in consumers' holiday spending, according to survey results released by CUNA and the Consumer Federation of America today.