The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s outline of proposals on the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) are an “unwarranted and vast expansion” of the statute and has an inappropriately limited timeline for feedback, CUNA and NAFCU wrote to the CFPB Monday.
The House and Senate are in Washington, D.C., this week, with both considering appropriations legislation on their respective chamber floors. The Senate Banking Committee will on vote on several nominations Tuesday, including Tanya Otsuka to serve on the NCUA board.
World Council of Credit Unions’ 2022 Statistical Report shows the global credit union movement soared past another milestone last year as worldwide membership topped 400 million. As of December 31, 2022, there were 403,976,049 credit union members.
CUNA President/CEO Jim Nussle cited a Department of Defense report in response to to a military banking association mention of credit unions during written testimony during a Senate hearing last week, noting the claims counter the results of a 2022 study requested by the House of Representatives and released by the DoD.
NCUA Board Member Rodney E. Hood celebrated the significant evolution of the event and the ongoing commitment of the credit union community to DEI principles Thursday at NCUA’s 2023 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Summit.
The CDFI Fund announced this week the FY2024 funding round will open later this fall. According to the CDFI Fund, the FY 2024 round will consist of funding provided under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 and “forthcoming FY 2024 appropriations.”
Credit unions are eligible to participate the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, a $42.5 billion program to expand high-speech internet access, under a waiver issued this week by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
The voting period for the proposed merger of CUNA and NAFCU closed Wednesday at 5 p.m. ET. Members and industry stakeholders will be notified of the results via email once ballot tallies are finalized by each organization’s independent ballot provider.
Congress should support legislation to increase credit union lending to veteran-owned businesses, CUNA wrote to a Senate, committee for its hearing on financial services to veterans, the the Veteran Member Business Loan Act (S. 539).