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BOSTON-NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar told attendees of NAFCU's 36th Annual Conference that he sees two major issues running into the future for credit unions: risk management and taxation. Along with risk management comes the diversification necessary to achieve proper balances of risk. Dollar pointed out that NCUA has implemented a...

MADISON, Wis. - CUNA Mutual Group has teamed up with Scottsdale, Arizona-based risk management provider Primary Payment Systems (PPS) to help credit unions reduce check fraud. The partnership comes in response to the continuing rising trend of fraud and identity theft. According to CUNA Mutual Vice President Al Stendahl, the...

WASHINGTON-NCUA and the other federal financial institution regulatory agencies issued guidance recently on the appropriate use of the Federal Reserve's primary discount window program in liquidity risk management and contingency planning. The guidance explains the Fed's discount window programs, including the new primary and secondary programs initiated in January. It...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. - Add Minnesota and Virginia to the growing list of states with credit unions participating in the Credit Union Direct Lending network. The addition of Minnesota and Virginia means there are now 11 states in the CUDL network serving more than 260 credit unions and 1,980 dealerships....

MADISON, Wis. - As advertisements and Web sites for fake credit unions pop up across the country, credit unions are left uncertain how to protect themselves. Just after exposing a fake company in Florida calling itself Century CU for releasing advertisements in Missouri, Ohio, San Francisco, the dubious ads have...

DETROIT - This year's African American Credit Union Coalition conference here is expected to top last year's attendance mark, with a number of industry notables scheduled to speak including Pete Crear, CUNA & Affiliates' Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, who will also receive the Coalition's first AACUC Lifetime...

WASHINGTON - Members of the House Financial Services Committee, including the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Barney Frank (Mass.) gave themselves a pat on the back for approving a bill that reauthorizes and reforms the National Flood Insurance Program. H.R. 253, The Two Floods and You Are Out of the Taxpayer's...

It is becoming more obvious every year that the typical national conference format utilized by credit union group sponsors, and all sorts of other industries as well, has probably outlived its usefulness. There has to be a better way than going from registration to opening reception to opening general session...