AUSTIN, Texas -- Credit unions and other community financial institutions have an opportunity to gain additional market share from big banks this year, according to new study, but CUs will still have to overcome some familiar obstacles.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate Banking Committee has postponed Tuesday's scheduled confirmation hearing of Mark McWatters to the NCUA board of directors due to inclement weather.

WASHINGTON: As more than 4,400 attendees flooded the capital for CUNA's Governmental Affairs Conference last week, the American Bankers Association launched an advertising campaign aimed at battering credit unions that, it argued, are getting too big for their britches.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.— Loans, membership and net worth at federally insured credit unions continued to rise during the last quarter of 2013, but net interest margins remain on the decline, according to fourth quarter data released Monday by NCUA.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. -- CO-OP Financial Services has announced the three finalists for this year's $10,000 CO-OP THINK Prize.

NORTH CHESTERFIELD, Va. -- Virginia Credit Union is issuing EMV plastic to its 60,000 cardholders.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- First Educators CU has changed its name to AlaTrust CU.

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

ARLINGTON, Va. — With the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau set to look into debt-collection practices, NAFCU issued a letter Friday urging the bureau to distinguish between credit unions collecting debts on their own behalf and third-party debt collectors.

The Treasury Department is searching for a financial institution to support the government's new retirement savings bond program.

WASHINGTON -- CUNA and NAFCU are asking NCUA to extend the comment period on the proposed risk-based capital rule another 90 days.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- NCUA issued four prohibition orders Friday, banning the following people from participating in the business of any federally insured financial institution.

It is a fair question, but a deeply sensitive one around credit unions and their boards of directors: Are CUs doing enough to weed out older board members who have served for decades but lack the financial knowledge and experience to be effective?

LIBERTY LAKE, Wash. -- Spokane Teachers CU has promoted multiple vice-presidents to C-suite positions as part of its succession planning strategy, along with broader efforts to diversify the responsibilities of upper-management employees.

A recent Washington Post article reported on a debate between Nobel Laureate economist Robert Shiller and Vivek Wadhwa of Stanford University.

BARSTOW, Calif. -- Since the late 1800's almost all of California's trains have passed through this Southern California transportation hub, and since 1954, the $8 million-asset Barstow Railway Employees Credit Union has been serving its members in and around the Barstow area.

Phone calls interrupting my lunch are common, but this was one of my primary financial institutions trying to reach me, according to Caller ID.

International Airline Employees Federal Credit Union (IAEFCU) will merge into SkyOne Federal Credit Union on March 1, the two CUs said last week.

In seeking to get the crowd engaged at last week's Herb Wegner Memorial Awards dinner, emcee and host Denise Gabel sought to rate the popularity of various things by applause.

WASHINGTON -- The long-standing credit union tax exemption was preserved in a draft tax reform plan unveiled by the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee last week.