Lisa Freeman

This week, Speaker of the House John Boehner will be only the second sitting Speaker to address CUNA's Governmental Affairs Conference.

When the then-Speaker of the House asked a newly minted member of the House Banking Committee (as it was still called back then) to co-sponsor a credit union bill, it was nothing less than a matter of life and death-both for the CU community and the young lawmaker's career.

State-chartered credit unions here no longer face the specter of two separate exams now that the North Carolina regulator and NCUA have agreed to work together again.

Despite speculation to the contrary, Chartway FCU said last week its position calling for one national CU trade association was not related to a CFCU board member's loss in a race for a NAFCU board seat.

The oddly-named start-up credit union, Internet Archive FCU, has officially opened for business and has attracted about 70 members so far, according to CEO Jordan Modell.

If executives at XCEL FCU didn't know better, they'd start to wonder if someone had it in for them.

After everything it went through after Sept. 11, 2001, Municipal CU thought it had disaster recovery down to a science, but Superstorm Sandy proved there’s always another lesson to be learned.

Gigi Hyland's departure from the NCUA board could raise the specter of gridlock should the remaining two members-one Democrat and one Republican-not agree on issues going before the agency.

As the presidential and congressional elections grow closer, a key issue for credit unions is who will that president appoint to top regulatory positions, not to mention what Congress might do to those agencies.

Despite the increasingly negative tone of politics and campaigns, credit unions have striven to stay positive, but that doesn't mean they're afraid of getting their hands a little dirty.

If showing up is half the battle, then CUNA and NAFCU are bent on winning.

The unique history behind how Internet Archive Federal Credit Union got its name.

Internet Archive FCU's sponsor is not your typical CU sponsor. For one thing, it's literally on the other side of the continent from the credit union, and for another, the CU wasn't chartered to serve its sponsor.

Start-up CU, Internet Archive FCU has a secret weapon: a board that is jam-packed with serious expertise.

There's a place where pricing and philosophy intersect, and that's where credit unions need to be, all the time.

One lesson that should not have been learned during the recession to: trying to minimize or even eliminate risk altogether.

If credit unions learn just one thing from the recession, it should be that they're not just tied together through the cooperative spirit-they are also bound together for better or worse as a regulated industry.

Living through the recession has taught credit unions the importance of liquidity management.

Credit unions need to get over their reluctance to segment accounts if they want to survive.

Credit unions may be not-for-profit, but they're still about making money.