NCUA Board Member Rick Metsger Speaks at 2018 CUNA GAC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Lauren Williams – CUNA Communications; (202) 626-7642; lwilliams@cuna.coop          

Washington, DC (February 27, 2018) – Jim Nussle, CUNA president/CEO, released the following statement after NCUA Board Member Rick Metsger spoke at the 2018 Credit Union National Association Governmental Affairs Conference (CUNA GAC) on Tuesday, February 27:

“We thank NCUA Board Member Rick Metsger for speaking before more than 5,000 CUNA GAC attendees this morning. Mr. Metsger lauded CUNA’s support for providing equity distributions to credit unions in 2018. CUNA was the only national trade association to support closing the stabilization fund and merging it with the share insurance fund.”

Metsger thanked the CUNA Board for its support noting that, “believe it or not, not all national trade associations supported [distributions this year].”

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