Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Russell Carollo said his experience indicates the practice of reimbursing members of the NCUA board up to three times the allowable per diem is unusual for government agencies.

In assembling this report on NCUA board travel, Credit Union Journal found the greatest challenge to be in obtaining expense receipts.

The NCUA board booked more travel expenses for Chicago than any other U.S. city in the last four years.

Credit unions added 740,000 new members in the third quarter of the year, a new quarterly record that easily puts CUs on pace for their best year ever, NCUA said.

Security Service FCU, San Antonio, named Eli Nurse VP of asset recovery.

Commodore Perry FCU expects to know this month the results of its appeal to NCUA's Supervisory Review Committee.

Anthony Raguz, CEO of the former St. Paul Croatian FCU, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison and ordered to pay $72 million restitution for masterminding the biggest fraud in credit union history that led to the 2010 collapse of the $240-million credit union.

Compliance, Social Media Top FI Concerns

What has your credit union been doing in 2012 to transform new members into members who use the CU as their primary financial institution?

Many businesses "freak out" over social media, but Jay Baer says that attitude conveniently forgets there have been radical game-changers in the past, including the telephone, fax machines and, of course, the Internet.

Running for a seat on the CUNA board, Joe Thomas is attempting to paint himself as an innovator and a modern thinker. As part of that, he's brought a new element to CUNA board elections: social media.

APPLETON, Wis.-NCUA has approved a credit union charter for Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a $540 million bank that used to be a credit union that will now once again be a credit union known as Thrivent FCU.

Goldenwest Paying Bonus Dividend

Why young people are not joining credit unions and other insights.

The National Credit Union Association's proposed budget boost sign agency needs to be folded according to Treasure-Manager of Unity Credit Union Dennis G. Moriarity.

Rates dropped significantly since January of 2011 and there is no compelling reason to invest anymore. Does this mean you should not put your money to work?

How can you make sure your credit card program grabs its share of the holiday haul?

Henry Wirz, CEO of SAFE Credit Union, shares five more best practices his credit union has developed.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – CU*Answers said Friday it has introduced an applications check for its core processing platform, CU*BASE which gives loan applications a “final check” so management can be sure their loan officers don’t forget to get everything needed to complete the application.

AURORA, Ill. --Former Aurora Firefighters CU President Anne Schaal admitted in her divorce settlement that she spent $580,000 in marital assets on a gambling addiction she hid from her husband of 46 years.