The National Credit Union Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2020 Herb Wegner Memorial Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement; John Fiore, Teresa Freeborn and Maurice R. Smith.
Indiana Credit Union League President John McKenzie appeared on a local news station last weekend to share the credit union difference, detailing how not-for-profit financial cooperatives and benefit their members and the communities they serve.
The 2019 New York Credit Union Association’s Young Professionals Conference featured young credit union professionals and volunteers networking and hearing insightful speakers at the Brook-Lea Country Club in Rochester.
CUNA supports the FTC's proposed changes to its Safeguards Rule, which requires financial institutions to develop, implement and maintain a comprehensive security system to protect consumer information and is being reviewed in the wake of recent data breaches.
The World Council of Credit Unions’ Board appointed two new Directors at the 2019 World Credit Union Conference, and heard from economic trend forecaster Pippa Malmgren in her keynote address during Tuesday’s general session.
CUNA, state leagues individual credit unions and other strategic partners are working to deepen diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the industry at both the organizational and member levels, writes CUNA's Samira Salem in Credit Union Journal.
For credit unions in the Dakotas, Tuesday’s announcement that they are launching the Open Your Eyes to a Credit Union® campaign couldn’t have better timing, writes Jeff Olson, president/CEO of the Credit Union Association of the Dakotas.
CUNA attended the two-day meeting of the CFPB's Credit Union Advisory Council Wednesday and Thursday, which included discussions on faster payments, remittances and the CFPB’s recent debt collection proposal.
CUNA President/CEO Jim Nussle issued a statement on the passing of former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) Thursday, the day the former legislator passed away at the age of 81. Cochran served in the Senate from 1978 until 2018.
NCUA should only promulgate new or expand existing rules only if they are warranted based on “a compelling need,” CUNA wrote to NCUA Thursday. CUNA also noted ways NCUA’s regulatory review could be improved.