Aaron Passman is editor of Credit Union Journal, the nation’s leading credit union news resource. He was appointed editor in 2018 after two years as an assistant editor at CUJ and nearly five years as a reporter there. He has worked as a staff writer or freelancer for a variety of publications across the country and is a graduate of the University of Kansas.
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Johnson has led the Iowa CU regulator’s office since being appointed by the governor in 2011.
May 12 -
The credit union allegedly denied a 2015 mortgage application from a married couple when the woman was on maternity leave, violating the Fair Housing Act.
May 10 -
The Delaware-based credit union will also implement other Symitar products for data analytics and forecasting.
May 10 -
From costume contests to memes and high-quality original videos, credit unions found all sorts of ways to celebrate the "Star Wars" series today.
May 4 -
The awards -- one of the highest honors in the credit union movement -- will be presented in February, in conjunction with the 2018 CUNA Governmental Affairs Conference.
May 4 -
The $248 million for the CDFI Fund is a defeat for President Trump, who had proposed scrapping the fund entirely in his initial budget proposal.
May 1 -
The credit union is the tenth largest in Pennsylvania, serving more than 80,000 members.
April 28 -
All 93,000 members of the Delaware Electric Co-Op are now eligible to join Del-One FCU.
April 27 -
The man who took 11 Alabama Credit Union employees hostage during an attempted robbery in January has reportedly told police he needed the money to pay for court costs in in a separate criminal case.
April 20 -
All six credit unions will utilize Fiserv’s DNA core platform, extending contracts with the technology provider that go on for more than 20 years.
April 19 -
The merger, which brings TMG CEO Shazia Manus into the CO-OP fold, is expected to directly impact more than half of all credit unions in the United States.
April 3 -
Former CU employees pleaded guilty to embezzlement and bank fraud charges, among others.
March 31 -
Critics have panned the president’s “skinny budget” for cutting social service programs while boosting defense spending, but some analysts say there could be real opportunities for CUs if the budget makes its way through Congress without significant changes.
March 30 -
U.S. Rep. Denny Heck – one of the few members of Congress to have worked in a credit union – is cheering legislation that could ease the process for chartering new CUs, but bemoaned that such legislation could also gut the consumer protections in Dodd-Frank.
March 22 -
As the House Financial Services Committee prepares for a hearing on the struggles of chartering new financial institutions, CU observers debate whether or not the credit union movement – amid an ongoing trend of industry consolidation – actually needs any new entrants.
March 21 -
Credit unions are sitting on a wealth of data from social media channels. The trick is sifting through the noise to find it—and use it.
March 17 -
The President's budget calls for eliminating the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institution grant program, which often benefits poor and rural consumers in areas that Trump easily carried in the election.
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At the Credit Union Analytics Summit held outside Seattle, CU Journal asked attendees to identify the biggest challenges the movement faces when it comes to data analytics.
March 10 -
Credit union tech leaders share their insights on what it takes to get started in data analytics and what’s holding many credit unions back.
March 8 -
Experts shared insight and strategies into collecting, analyzing and using big data at the Credit Union Analystics Summit.
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