BOISE — The Idaho CU League has announced that Kathy Thomson will continue on as president and CEO, removing the "interim" from that title and making her the first female in the top spot since the league's founding.

One of the biggest opportunities in the auto market right now may not be in sales.

WASHINGTON — CUNA President and CEO Bill Cheney is leaving his post in June to take the helm at $9.7 billion SchoolsFirst FCU in Santa Ana, Calif.

ODESSA, Texas — A thief who used a forklift to steal a credit union's ATM last week apparently did not profit from the caper.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — NCUA chairman Debbie Matz has informed CUNA and NAFCU that the comment period for the agency's risk-based capital proposal will not be extended, the trade associations report.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Jim Payne, head of Wilkes-Barre City Employees FCU, was found dead at his home Monday from a gunshot wound.

TAMPA, Fla. — On the heels of its conversion from a federal to a state charter, the $5.5 billion Suncoast Credit Union has received a low-income designation from the National Credit Union Administration.

WASHINGTON — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is planning to eliminate its current employee performance management system after data showed minorities were rated lower than white employees.

NEW YORK — Fourteen credit unions will participate in a pilot program to test "Borrow & Save," which offers low-and-moderate income U.S. consumers small-dollar loans as an alternative to payday lenders.

WASHINGTON — Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson and Sen. Mike Crapo, the panel's top Republican, laid out a preliminary bipartisan agreement Tuesday on housing finance reform after months of deliberation.

PHILADELPHIA — Reloadable prepaid is becoming a popular alternative to checking accounts for a growing number of Americans, and more credit unions than banks are offering the product, according to separate studies from the Pew Charitable Trusts and Moebs Services.

WASHINGTON -- House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling and two other GOP lawmakers are probing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over how it treats its employees.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- After starting negotiations last summer, the University of Michigan CU and Eastern Michigan University Credit Union have merged.

SEATTLE -- In this cycling crazy city, one credit union has created a loan program just for bike riders, and is asking local residents to send in photos of their favorite bicycles.

A selection of images featuring credit unions' efforts in their communities.

MasterCard and Visa have formed a new group to improve efforts in the U.S. to migrate to the EMV-chip cards other security methods.

NEW YORK -- Despite all the attention to what appears to be a growing number data breaches, the majority of independent business owners are not concerned about credit card security, according to a new study from Newtek Business Services.

WASHINGTON -- Credit unions and banks are teaming up to fight a common enemy: patent trolls.

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The high-profile addition last year of Washington and Tennessee to the ranks of states that allow some credit unions pay to board members reignited a debate that continues -- is it a good idea or a bad idea?

Visa Inc. is deploying a classic fraud prevention model to combat the growing sophistication of prepaid card fraud.