TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Tuscaloosa Chevrolet and Alabama Credit Union have partnered to host the first Alabama Ice Cream Churning Championships on Aug. 17.

CINCINNATI – Fifth Third Bancorp said it has agreed to sell another five million shares of Vantiv, the one-time Fifth Third Processing Solutions it took public two years ago, at a pretax gain of about $85 million.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The former manager of the Veterans Administration branch of The Credit Union of Leavenworth was sentenced to 21 months in prison and ordered to pay almost $330,000 restitution for stealing funds from members she had personally befriended.

OMAHA, Neb. – A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a lower court ruling and reinstated an ATM fee disclosure suit against Mutual First FCU, one of more than 100 suits that appeared resolved before last year’s bill eliminating one of the two fees disclosures.

BOSTON-One person believes credit unions need a new strategy for their websites-one that will actually help generate income.

It was 15 years ago this week that President Bill Clinton signed into law the Credit Union Membership Access Act, better known as HR 1151, which codified credit unions' powers to serve multiple groups.

State Lawmakers Offered 0% Loans During Impasse

Credit Union ONE here plans to push auto loans all throughout the summer of 2013-even though some of those loans may not be fully paid off until the summer of 2020.

ATLANTA-First mortgages deemed "seriously delinquent" declined by 156 basis points in June on a year-over-year basis, according to Equifax's latest National Consumer Credit Trends Report. The percentage of first-mortgage loans 90 days late or more or in foreclosure is 4.14%, down from 5.7% one year prior.

ARLINGTON, Va.-The National Association of State Credit Union Supervisors (NASCUS) has told NCUA it will not support a proposed derivatives regulation in its current form as the proposal would limit the authority of state regulators to supervise derivatives activities in their states.

Rentsys Acquires Evergreen Data

Vancity CU has created a striking billboard that it covered with 60,000 pennies.

Redwood CU, Santa Rosa, Calif., named Ron Felder SVP of retail lending. Separately, Donna Zapata, the CU's business development officer, was honored at the 25th Anniversary Sonoma County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Gala for her service to the Hispanic Chamber, and her development of the Hispanic Chamber's leadership program and commitment to creating professional development opportunities for Hispanic youth.

The approaching autumn means strategic planning season is upon most credit unions. As plans are made and strategies reviewed for 2014, Credit Union Journal begins the first of a two-part Special Report in which more than a dozen experts offer insights on how to make that planning more specific, speaking to not just forecasts for the coming year, but the nuts and bolts of making planning sessions more effective and productive. Coverage begins on page 16.

BOSTON-Credit unions are contributing to what one person called the "Red Suit Vision"-the hope that women will hold 30% of top leadership positions in corporate America within the next decade.

Debit interchange is under attack again as a federal judge last week struck down the new limits on swipe fees, raising concern about the future of credit union debit programs and the impact the decision could have on members.

Following a federal judge's ruling invalidating the new limits on debit swipe fees, experts remind that adjustments to the interchange rate are not coming soon.

With state leagues in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas having merged to become the Cornerstone CU League on July 1, one of the most significant changes will be the expansion of services to assist small CUs.

Good strategic planning for 2014 should follow six steps, according to one industry expert.

The U.S. financial services industry has been in a declining interest-rate environment for 30 years, meaning many credit union executives have never worked or managed in a rising-rate environment.