The Federal Housing Administration will reduce its annual mortgage insurance premium from 1.35% to 0.85%, the White House announced Jan. 7.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law Dec. 17 that will allow state-chartered credit unions to combine select employer groups, association and community groups into a single field of membership.

National fast food chain Chick-fil-A confirmed Dec. 30 that it received reports of potential unusual activity involving payment cards at a few of its restaurants.

I am a board member of Central Jersey Federal Credit Union in Woodbridge N.J., and new to the CU Times.

Sarah Snell Cooke, you wrote in your October 1, 2014 (Apple, Wal-Mart Can Teach CUs About Membership) editorial about how the 100 million U.S. credit union membership total is bogus due to the number of multiple memberships in several credit unions.

More than two dozen credit unions have been hit and some have suffered losses ranging from $100,000 to $400,000 in a home equity line of credit scam, according to Roger Nettie, a senior consultant of risk management at CUNA Mutual Group.

A new service from Equifax allows credit unions to see what happened to auto loans they denied or otherwise failed to book.

The Home Depot data breach cost credit unions almost $60 million, nearly twice as much as the Target breach, according to survey results released by CUNA Oct. 30.