Credit unions

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-Actions taken by NCUA to place three more corporates into conservatorship and the agency's new corporate proposal are "well thought out, bold" and were needed to be done to further protect natural-person CUs and their members, Corporate America CEO Thomas Bonds said.

WASHINGTON-Corporate credit unions must change their business model, remove complexity, and take further steps to control costs as a result of the new corporate rule.

WASHINGTON-NCUA has said credit unions keeping their funds at their corporates will be vital to the success of the corporate rescue plan-but will credit unions be willing to do so?

WASHINGTON-In its analysis of NCUA's new rules for corporates, CUNA said it is most concerned with the costs of dealing with so-called "legacy assets" and the resulting impact on credit unions, according to Mary Dunn, head of regulatory compliance.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-Thomas Bonds surmised that NCUA's actions strongly signal a consolidation of the corporate system looms in the future.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif.-As the next few years unfold and NCUA pursues its plan to create "bridge" corporates as a means of executing its vision for the role the agency sees corporates eventually playing, CO-OP Financial Services said it will be seeking to play a role.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA's newly passed corporate rules are expected to unleash a major restructuring of the corporate credit union network that will entail consolidation of the disparate group of 28 regional corporates. The question to be settled is who will lead that effort?

GREENSBORO, N.C.-The CEOs of a number of corporate CUs said they believe the requirements and deadlines NCUA has set in its new corporate plan will be achievable.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA has outlined the "good bank/bad bank" model under which four of the five conserved corporates will be transitioned to "bridge corporates."

WASHINGTON-NCUA outlined four potential futures for the corporate credit unions that have been taken into conservatorship. The question now is which of these alternatives will win out.

GREENSBORO, N.C.-In the near future corporate credit unions will revert to their "core purpose," believes David Brehmer, president of First Carolina Corporate CU.

ALEXANDRIA-In what proved to be a rare moment of levity during the webinar, one participant asked why NCUA didn't just make the conserved corporates convert to banks, to which NCUA Chairman Debbie Matz laughingly replied, "The FDIC is not stupid, they wouldn't take them."

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-With so many things in the financial services world crashing down around credit unions, it was easy to miss the two big game changers that would have remodeled corporates regardless of the new corporate rule out of NCUA.

ALEXANDRIA-Although the corporate plan does offer the opportunity for credit unions to file legal claims-and, indeed NCUA is already sending out claims receipts-the agency's Scott Hunt repeatedly noted that it is "extremely unlikely" there will be anything left to make good on those claims.

STOCKTON, Calif. – Waiting for NCUA to issue its final Corporate System Resolution has been a “barrier” to natural-person CUs going forward, according to a member of CUNA’s Corporate Credit Union Next Steps Working Group, who said he was glad the regulator has laid out what its plans and proposals are.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. – As the next few years unfold and NCUA pursues its plan to create “bridge” corporates as a means of executing its vision for the role the agency sees corporates eventually playing, CO-OP Financial Services said it will be seeking to play a role.

PHOENIX – Leaders at corporate credit unions were still digesting mountains of information received from NCUA Friday and Monday, but three expressed optimism as to their own viability.

That’s the consensus of two members of CUNA’s Corporate Credit Union Next Steps Working Group, who both agreed that what NCUA unveiled Friday was closely in line with the team’s expectations.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA has scheduled a series of 11 Town Hall meetings across the country in October in order to discuss the new rules relating to corporate credit union operations and corporate legacy asset resolution.