Community/People News

NAFCU asks NCUA to stop using material from Suze Orman because of her debit card program trade says has the potential to hurt credit unions.

As discussion of the impacts of NCUAs recent memo outlining termination dates for various services offered by U.S. Central Bridge grows in the industry, one deadline has generated heated discussionand worrieson the part of some credit union leaders. That is auto settlement, a comparatively obscure wholesale settlement service where U.S....

Debra Schwartz, president/CEO of Mission Federal Credit Union, has been named an at-large director to NAFCUs board of directors. Schwartz replaces outgoing board member Shelley Clarke, who stepped down when she retired as president/CEO of Goldenwest Federal Credit Union in Ogden, Utah.

As a turbulent 2011 came to end and we plan for 2012, credit unions still face a great deal of uncertainty in the financial marketplace.

Three months and still no hearing.That has been the fate so far of Carla Decker, President Obamas nominee to succeed Gigi Hyland on the NCUA Board.

The 45,000-member, $275 million Evolve Credit Union, formerly the El Paso Employees Federal Credit Union, has found that supporting its local community and promoting its recent name change has meant reaching out to El Paso's burgeoning art community.