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The weather may have been frightful but credit unions across a wide swath of the mid-continent from Chicago to Wichita, all buried under this week's monster blizzard of snow and ice, were getting back to normal in quick fashion Thursday.

In a Jan. 31 letter to Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas), Elizabeth Warren revealed that the current plan calls for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to have six primary divisions.

Truliant Federal Credit Union is hosting a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance site at its headquarters in Winston-Salem, N.C., through April 16. VITA is a free tax preparation service for families who make up to $49,000 a year.

Conditions and underlying trends varied widely last week for the mergers of two small credit unions in Illinois and Wyoming.

Douglas J. Petersen, who became the interim CEO of the $800 million Workers' Credit Union of Fitchburg, Mass. in December following the sudden departure of its veteran head, Frederick D. Healey, has been promoted to the permanent CEO slot.

Online payment services continue to be the favorite target of phishing fraudsters, according to a new report from the APWG.

It's a new day for credit union business development departments.

The $2.2 billion Lake Michigan Credit Union has bought VML Insurance Agency, a firm that offers a line of personal and business insurance plans and benefit packages.