CUNA Mutual Group today announced the acquisition of Portland, Ore.-based Mirador, a financial technology startup company that delivers a digital small business lending platform.

Strong membership growth highlighted CUNA's January Monthly Credit Union Estimates.

Lending growth highlighted CUNA’s October Monthly Credit Union Estimates, with credit union loan portfolios on track for the fourth straight year of double digit growth.

The National Credit Union Foundation has announced the addition of Chad Helminak as the new director of Credit Union Development and Cooperative Values Engagement, effective Jan. 29. Helminak will lead the Foundation’s popular Credit Union Development Education Training and engage the growing corps of Credit Union Development Educators.

CUNA’s National Awards Committee recently selected the recipients of the 2017 Dora Maxwell Social Responsibility Community Service Award, the Louise Herring Philosophy-in-Action Member Service Award, and the Desjardins Awards for Financial Education.

In recognition for his almost forty years of service to the credit union movement and innovative spirit pushing the movement forward, the National Credit Union Foundation Chuck Purvis, resident/CEO at Coastal CU, Raleigh, N.C., as the recipient of a 2018 Herb Wegner Memorial Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement.

An article in the October issue of Wyoming Business Report highlights the fraud prevention potential of CULedger, a credit union consortium supported by the efforts of CUNA and the Mountain West Credit Union Association.

Forty-six credit union professionals became Credit Union Development Educators after being guided by dedicated program facilitators and mentors through intensive training from the National Credit Union Foundation Sept. 13-20 in Madison, Wis.

The Credit for Agriculture Producers Project in the Ukraine organized and hosted an engagement visit for international credit union experts, composed of members of World Council of Credit Unions and the Global Women’s Leadership Network to Ukraine from July 28 to Aug. 2.