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From availability issues to regulatory hurdles and changes in marketing strategies, dealers say there is plenty credit unions can do to improve relations between the two sides.

A bill that would have capped payday loan rates at 36% failed to get through committee, but credit unions have pledged to continue to fight for the legislation.

Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., recently introduced the Payment Choice Act in the U.S. House of Representatives to prohibit retail businesses from refusing cash for payments.

More than half of all states don’t have an electronic system to track car titles and liens, which increases the potential for fraud and costs for lenders.

The Nashville, Tenn., company hired Tim Schools from Highlands Bancshares to succeed founding CEO Claire Tucker.

The new capital will allow the Austin bank to increase its lending limit.

Intense competition for information technology pros is forcing community banks to recruit from outside the financial industry.

The Illinois company will gain six offices after it buys Investors' Security Trust.

Manuel Alvarez, who became commissioner of the Department of Business Oversight on Monday, is the former general counsel and chief compliance officer at the online lender Affirm.

Earlier this year Joe Christian was named to lead the Albuquerque, N.M.-based institution on an interim basis after its previous CEO resigned.