Michael Bartlett

NEW YORK — The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions announced the expansion of Juntos Avanzamos (Spanish for "Together We Advance"), a designation for credit unions committed to serving and empowering Hispanic consumers.

LINO LAKES, Minn. — Core processing provider Sharetec System said it has partnered with Allied Payment Network to provide credit unions with several payments technologies.

Just because you've issued chip-enabled cards to all your cardholders doesn't mean your job is done, experts caution.

Though the EMV liability has officially shifted, many card issuers are still in the process of rolling out chip-enabled cards, and there is no one right strategy.

One CEO sums up industry frustration this way: 'Why ask the hard questions if you ignore the tough answers?'

Think of the Oct. 1 liability shift date for EMV cards as a beginning—not an ending.

Oregon Community Credit Union says it leveraged the EMV liability shift date as a way to plant its flag as a technology leader among financial institutions in the Pacific Northwest.

VSoft Corporation, a provider of information and technology solutions for financial institutions, and Payveris, a multi-channel provider of digital payment solutions, on Tuesday said they are expanding an existing strategic partnership to integrate Payveris' payment solutions into VSoft's new IRIS Omni-Channel platform.

NAFCU on Friday asked a federal appeals court for leave to join an action challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s order on Telephone Consumer Protection Act prohibitions relating to financial institutions’ autodialed calls to account holders.

LOS ANGELES — As major wildfires continue to burn in Northern California, credit unions have been challenged to lend a helping hand.

NCUA late Thursday liquidated tiny SWC Credit Union, here.

Georgia’s Own Credit Union has expanded its relationship with Fiserv by selecting DNA and more than a dozen additional solutions to support the $1.9 billion credit union’s growth in new commercial services and lending markets.

The founder of Reno Teacher's Federal Credit Union, John Herbert Marean, has passed away.

Five credit unions are beta testing a Small Business Administration-compliant lending tool as part of a partnership between the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions and Minneapolis-based Community Reinvestment Fund, USA.

In the latest example of consolidation among corporate credit unions, the boards of directors for both Mid-Atlantic Corporate Federal Credit Union, Middletown, Pa., and First Carolina Corporate Credit Union, Greensboro, N.C., said they have agreed in principle to combine their organizations in a “merger of equals” that would continue the trend of corporate consolidation.

Just one hour after NCUA conserved Bethex FCU on Friday, the New York State Department of Financial Services on Friday took possession of $178 million Montauk Credit Union, and appointed NCUA as conservator.

NCUA on Friday placed Bronx, N.Y.-based Bethex Federal Credit Union into conservatorship.

The push to raise the statutory limit on credit union member business lending got a boost Thursday when three U.S. Senators introduced a bill that would allow NCUA to raise a credit union’s MBL cap to 27.5% of assets, from the current limit of 12.25%, provided the CU met certain requirements.

LINO LAKES, Minn. — Core processing provider Sharetec System said it has teamed up with ProPay to provide credit unions a payment solution for their members.

Database Marketing Agency Corporation, a provider of business intelligence and smart data analytics technology for the financial industry, on Thursday said it is combining operations with Baker Hill, a provider of relationship management, credit-origination and risk-management solutions.