Credit unions are willing to make smaller balance loans that are less profitable compared to other financial institutions, CUNA wrote to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Monday.

Proposals from the Small Business Administration would make “detrimental shifts” in the SBA’s 7(a) lending program, CUNA and other organizations wrote to House and Senate Small Business Committee leadership.

The Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund’s proposed certification application contains multiple provisions that would inappropriately exclude credit unions doing good work, CUNA wrote to the CDFI Fund Monday.

CUNA supports NCUA’s proposed rule to amend federal credit union bylaws regarding member expulsion but asks NCUA to examine ways to streamline and simplify the rule. The proposal would implement the CUNA-League-led Credit Union Governance Modernization Act.  

CUNA Senior Economist Dawit Kebede said the November employment report shows the labor market is still strong despite rising interest rates and slow activity in some sectors of the economy. Employers added 263,000 jobs and the unemployment rate remained at 3.7%.  

Recent failures of cryptocurrency and blockchain based financial platforms have demonstrated that an unregulated, unsupervised structure is not viable and poses serious risks to consumers and the economy, CUNA wrote to the Senate Agriculture Committee for its hearing on the FTX bankruptcy.

Credit unions are consistently willing to refinance small balance loans, but face systemic challenges to refinancing those loans, CUNA wrote to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in response to its Request for Information on mortgage refinances and forbearances.

Rep. Donald McEachin, D-Va., passed away Tuesday night at the age of 61. McEachin served in the U.S. Congress since 2017 and was a strong credit union supporter.

CUNA joined other community development organizations to encourage the CDFI Fund to to simplify its reporting requirements by combining similar forms into a single report and aligning reporting deadlines for reports that use the same underlying data.