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There are more credit unions in the Community Development Financial Institution Fund program than banks, but advocates are pressing for even greater involvement.

The country’s largest banks, and even some lawmakers, are calling on the banking agencies to roll back requirements imposed after the financial crisis. But that puts the economy at grave risk.

The industry group wants the FDIC to reject an ILC request from student lender Nelnet and impose a two-year ban on future applications.

Seven credit unions have asked Michigan's banking regulator for permission to launch a trust company, a move that bankers says oversteps that industry's role of helping people of modest means.

A group of rival trade associations have put aside their differences and come together to emphasize to Congress the need for increased standards for retailers.

Nelnet’s planned bank would be an online enterprise focused on gathering deposits and making private student loans.

The National Credit Union Administration is set to vote on revisions to its field-of-membership rule, even as it's entangled in a legal dispute with the American Bankers Association over the rule.

The groups applauded a proposal to establish minimum GSE capital requirements, but called for more immediate steps to release the companies from conservatorship.

Groups representing banks, credit unions, the housing industry and others argue in favor of a bill requiring the CFPB to issue timely guidance on its rules.

In a break with his own Justice Department, President Trump suggested Friday he would sign a bill co-authored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren to protect financial institutions that help legal marijuana businesses.

The bill is one of two SBA-related measures the Senate approved late Tuesday and sent to President Trump to sign into law.

The most common credit union mergers involve a small credit union being acquired by a much larger one, but that could be changing, as three recent deals involving credit unions with more than $300 million in assets as the ones being merged out.

Bigger credit unions present a formidable challenge for banks in areas such as business lending.

Several credit union and bank groups have formed a rare united front in letters opposing the Trump administration's rescission package.

Rebeca Romero Rainey, who has been on the job for less than a week, has already slammed postal banking and pressed for more regulatory relief. In a Q&A, she discusses her plans to foster innovation, tackle succession issues and encourage more banks to stay independent.

The group made its plea in a petition, signed by over 10,000 community bank employees, urging lawmakers to quickly move a bill rather than subject the process to "further delay or inaction."

Camden Fine, the president of the Independent Community Bankers of America, is due to retire this week. We talk with him about his long career — and his fears for the future of his industry.

Banks and credit unions have been fighting each other so long that many have forgotten how the feud started and why it may matter to the future of both industries.

The outgoing head of the ICBA reflects on how technology and partisan politics have changed policymaking over the past 15 years.

The trades encouraged Congress to pass H.R. 5266, which would change the agency's governance to a five-member commission.