Credit Union Journal - April 2017

Why a simple conversation about ordering checks should have led to a loan...but didn't.

Stakeholders have until May 9 to offer their thoughts on how to design an additional source of capital for credit unions.

Meeting with CEOs, President Trump discussed reducing the financial regulatory burden among a series of actions he is pursuing to make the U.S. more business-friendly.

SEG-based CUs could see a particularly big benefit from the rules, observers say, but community-chartered institutions and others could also see a significant boost.

The trade association's lawsuit challenging new field-of-membership rules may have the opposite effect, as more credit unions consider expansion before the litigation is resolved.

Just like ATMs before them, financial institutions' websites are coming under fire for not being handicap-friendly, and DoJ is about to turn up the heat.

A new Republican plan to streamline Dodd-Frank's capital rules, stress tests and many other requirements will be reintroduced in the coming weeks by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling.

Instead of waiting to be disrupted by fintech startups, a pair of credit unions are rethinking what they are, who they serve and how they do it — and it's paying off by bringing younger members into the fold.

Research shows younger consumers are increasingly interested in personalized products and services, but credit unions may lose out on business if they don’t have aggregation tools that can compete with fintech lenders.