Lisa Freeman

BEAVER, Pa. — WEST-AIRCOMM FCU currently plans to continue business as usual with its mortgage loans come January when the CFPB's QM rule goes into effect, despite the potential regulatory and legal risks involved.

MUSKEGO, Wis. — Corporate Central Credit Union announced earlier this month that it has teamed up with FIMAC Solutions LLC, to offer ALM loan, credit risk and portfolio/bond accounting services to its member credit unions.

MANSFIELD, Texas — Texas Trust CU appointed Navy Vet Ron Dinwiddie chief information officer.

TAMPA, Fla. — Suncoast Schools FCU is launching a credit card participation program called Credit Cards for Members that allows other credit unions to offer a turn-key, full-service credit card program administered by the $5.4 billion credit union.

LIVE OAK, Texas — Randolph-Brooks FCU upgraded its mobile banking Android app to add a widget that allows users to view account balances without having to launch the app or log into it.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — CO-OP Shared Branching is expanding its reach in Puerto Rico via an extended agreement with El Circuito Cooperativo Inc.

WASHINGTON — With the U.S. House of Representatives in recess this week, credit union lobbyists can focus their efforts on the Senate and the regulators.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — NCUA placed Mayfair FCU, Philadelphia, in conservatorship after four straight quarters of losses at the $14.3 million-asset credit union.

ENDICOTT, N.Y.—Federal regulators have approved Visions FCU's proposal to absorb CTCE FCU, a $78 million CU in Reading, Penn.

WARREN, Mich.—Member Driven Technologies, an IT CUSO, has acquired CUsource LLC for its data-processing, draft, print mail and security services.

MADISON, Wis.—The National CU Foundation reported it has distributed more than $208,000 in grants to 248 credit union members in Colorado affected by recent flooding.

WOODLAND, Calif.—Yolo FCU announced that President/CEO Clyde Brooker will retire at the end of December after 16 years of service.

LINCOLN, Neb.—Liberty First CU announced Frank Wilber will take the reins as CEO effective Nov. 25.

PHARR, Texas—Long-time credit union executive Suzy Brinkman-Doughty died Monday, according to the Cornerstone CU League. Brinkman-Doughty was the CEO of NAFT FCU for 28 years.

WASHINGTON—The nation's three largest credit unions made it onto the National Cooperative Bank's annual NCB Co-op 100 list, which ranks the top performing cooperatives in the U.S.

WASHINGTON – CUNA is not working hard on its “Don’t Tax My Credit Union” social media campaign – and that actually is a good thing.

WASHINGTON – The recent swearing in of Richard Metsger to the NCUA Board puts the helm of the agency back up to its full complement of three board members – just in time for the regulator to tackle a host of critical issues, including everything from its derivatives proposal and the agency’s budget to CUSO oversight and risk-based net worth.

Is there any such thing as a "good" payday loan? That is the debate at the heart of a move by the National Consumer Law Center and Center for Responsible Lending to urge NCUA to crack down on nine credit unions that allegedly engage in predatory payday lending practices.

It's a long way from sunny Florida to wintry Wisconsin, but the route Chuck Fagan, CUES' new CEO, took wasn't so very big of a leap.

It could only happen at GAC: four of the six still-living past or current NCUA chairmen met up in the exhibit hall to chat at CUNA's Governmental Affairs Conference.