Senior CUNA staff attended a hearing on the motions for summary judgement in the lawsuit against NCUA’s field-of-membership rule Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
CUNA President/CEO Jim Nussle reiterated his call for credit union action to support the Senate’s bipartisan regulatory relief Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act as the Senate prepares to move forward this week.
A federal district court in Virginia Friday threw out a lawsuit brought against a credit union alleging website accessibility issues under the ADA after finding the plaintiff was not eligible to join the credit union.
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton appointed Lt. Gov. Tina Smith Wednesday to replace Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) after he announced his resignation last week. CUNA and the Minnesota Credit Union Network look forward to working with her.
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.