Few components to successful CEO succession are more important than selecting an interim CEO.

CU boards are under increasing pressure to practice effective risk oversight, says CUNA Mutual Group's Joette Colletts.

NCUA’s financial literacy requirements are pushing credit union directors to combine the will to offer volunteer leadership with the skills required to assess financial performance.

Make sure volunteers are up-to-date on regulations and changes that may affect your CU.

How would your board grade itself on crisis management?

New approach would connect CUs to the community in several new, important ways.

NCUA has issued orders prohibiting five individuals from participating in the affairs of any federally insured financial institution.

One memory that has stuck with Bill Mellin for the past 10 years: Seeing the many abandoned, soot-covered cars near Ground Zero after the Sept. 11 attacks.

A training session brought Kim Ploof to Municipal Credit Union, located across the street from the World Trade Center, on Sept. 11, 2001.

"I never thought there was such evil in the world," recalls Sharon Brimmer, who worked at a CU branch in the World Trade Center’s North Tower.