WASHINGTON-After California's Gary Miller was targeted for defeat by credit unions' first Super PAC last year it was hard to imagine that Miller, who won an eighth congressional term anyway in the state's new 31st House district, would be positioned to be the next credit union champion in Congress-as he was last week.

PLANO, Texas-Catalyst Corporate FCU, the corporate credit union conglomerate constructed from four corporates-three of them failures-has disclosed some of the details of last year's purchase and assumption of the remnants of WesCorp FCU, the one-time $34-billion California failure.

WASHINGTON-Funding legislation approved by Congress last month will allow community development credit unions and other CDFIs to issue federally guaranteed bonds to finance a variety of development activities, helping to boost capital and lending capacity of the CDCUs.

The role of the CEO and the skill sets required have changed since 2008, contends David Ardire.

When Vern Babilon arrived as the new CEO of $133-million Tucson Old Pueblo Credit Union, he arrived with CEO experience-his own and that of others.

Twenty years after starting a career in credit unions, Roy Bibb has a much different perspective of the CEO's role now that he's sitting in that chair.

Having seen good and bad management practices from the inside of more than 150 CUs during his time as an NCUA examiner, Michael DiBenedetto feels he's in a better position today to run South Florida Educational FCU.

GRANITE CITY, Ill.-When Mark Holshouser began with GCS Credit Union in 1979, it had one location, 10 employees and $10 million in assets. As its core FOM, the steel industry, began to reduce its workforce, GCS moved to a community charter. Holshouser, who was named CEO in 1985, is retiring, having overseen growth to $317 million in assets and 39,000 members. Below, Holshouser shares his insights in this Credit Union Journal Exit Interview.

From stay-at-home mom to part-time teller to credit union CEO 23 years later, Karen Greenleaf would not trade her career path for any other.

There are several reasons Lloyd Hamm, Jr., took the CEO's job at Grafton Suburban CU, but none bigger than the former banker wanting to execute management and business philosophies that center on helping people.

2013 is seeing record turnover amongcredit union executives, but in this case,it's long-time CEOs retiring.

John Klimas says managing people is the CEO's No. 1 job. Yet he also acknowledges that despite its importance, there is no formal training that prepares someone for the role.

The first thing Jim Lafoon did when he took over as CEO in December 2012 was remove all the awards from the massive trophy case in Security Service FCU's headquarters and replace them with a small sign.

When Bernie McLaughlin arrived recently at Point Breeze CU as its new CEO, he had 33 years in financial services, 29 of those in banks.

an Meyer won't take over as CEO at 1st MidAmerica CU here until June 1, but he's hopeful that few will even notice the change.

Despite shifting from an SVP role into the CEO's chair and moving his family more than 500 miles north, James Nastars says the transition to CEO at Meritrust CU here has been an easy one.

In February, $1.9-billion SAFE Credit Union announced an unusual power-sharing arrangement, with EVP/COO Dave Roughton being named president and COO, while long-time CEO Henry Wirz retained that title.

Despite being chartered nearly 70 years ago, the new CEO at Catholic Family FCU says his CU's biggest problem is a lack of awareness.

The new CEO at $30-million Texas Plains FCU plans says her management philosophy weighs heavily toward listening, including to frontline staff many executives might overlook.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif.-CO-OP Financial Services has released a new iPad App for CO-OP Mobile that allows an iPad users to connect to his or her personal account status and history as well as credit-union-hosted web pages for information on rates or services.