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Catholic FCU recognizes a combined 135 years of experience and other credit union professionals in the news.

Creating a bipartisan commission to manage the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will make the agency's rules longer-lasting and place needed checks on the director's authority.

Lifting the personal guarantee requirements in certain cases could open up some lucrative niche markets, according to one MBL expert.

Banks change top executives all the time, but it's rare that one leaves for another venture and simultaneously gets recruited to the board of the bank he or she is leaving.

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More loans mean more profit, but they also mean more paperwork, more underwriting and more chances for things to go wrong if the CU doesn’t have the bandwidth to handle the load.

More loans means more profit, so why would anyone ask if there’s a dark side to loan growth? Because more loans also means more that can go wrong.

American Banker readers share their views on the most pressing banking topics of the week. Comments are excerpted from reader response sections of AmericanBanker.com articles and our social media platforms.

I made a provocative comment, as it turned out, during my keynote at a recent conference. The comment was picked up in a press article that reported I said "the coding behind virtual currency bitcoin could also prove to be enormously transformational, potentially even replacing the Swift network for interbank payments."

As the white-label force behind a growing number of mobile wallets in Asia, Latin America and Europe, Mozido LLC is familiar with the limitations of building consumer awareness and usage through relatively narrow channels.