Credit unions

Attorney General Jeff Sessions made headlines in January when he tightened federal marijuana enforcement. But the good news for financial institutions looking to service the pot industry is that the rest of the government has responded with a shrug.

LGE Community Credit Union has a deal to acquire Georgia Heritage Bank. It's the fourth time this year a credit union has agreed to buy a bank.

Constellation Digital Partners, LLC, has raised $26 million in the last 10 months.

Butke has been in credit unions for 40 years, the past 25 building the Ohio-based corporate.

The company's deal for Coastway Bancorp in Rhode Island makes sense since both institutions are former credit unions.

The National Credit Union Administration’s defense of changes to a field-of-membership rule was challenged by a federal judge on Wednesday, suggesting an American Bankers Association lawsuit against the revisions may be successful.

Timothy Zimmerman is optimistic about regulatory relief and the capabilities of the association's next CEO, but he remains wary of nonbank competition and cybersecurity risk.

Credit unions saw strong gains in membership, loans and more in 2017, though the industry continued to shrink, with 200 fewer credit unions in operation than at the end of 2016.

If community banks fail to keep up with higher rates offered by online banks, credit unions and (soon) big banks, their liquidity may deteriorate even faster.

The Russia probe puts a national spotlight on a Chicago bank exec; CFPB's Mulvaney and Sen. Warren face off (again) while a credit union CEO takes a surprising position on the industry's tax exemption.

Readers weigh in on whether or not banks should take a stand on gun control, opine on digital banking outages, reflect on banks building more branches in the internet age and more.

A retired tech leader looks back on four decades of major changes in the credit union movement.

A look back at some of the highlights from the Credit Union National Association's 2018 Governmental Affairs Conference.

Iowa lawmakers are considering a bill that would lower taxes for banks and impose a franchise tax on credit unions. The move could be a bellwether for other states looking at similar measures.

Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney dismissed concerns by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., about his leadership of the consumer agency while supporting a lighter regulatory touch for credit unions.

Lawmakers should consider taxing large, banklike credit unions that have strayed from their original fields of membership, argues a credit union executive.

The move is aimed at boosting services avaialble to the credit union service organization's member-owners.

Credit union executives talked up a pending regulatory relief effort while endorsing a radical shift in direction by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau during a meeting with President Trump and other top White House officials on Monday.

National Credit Union Administration Chairman J. Mark McWatters made an appeal to credit union executives to work with small community banks when it comes to advocating for shared goals.

Former CUNA economist Bill Hampel has attended the trade group’s Governmental Affairs Conference for decades, but this year he’ll do so as a Wegner Award winner.