The reorganization at the California and Nevada Credit Union Leagues was prompted by a search for relevancy in a new financial services landscape.

Grow Financial FCU is trying a novel approach to lure passersby into its branches: an interactive video wall that plays a game with people outside, in which they can win cash.

This week marks International Credit Union Week and with it comes a Credit Union Journal tradition: A Day in the Life of Credit Unions. Participants around the U.S. and the world all shot photos of events at their CUs on the same day.

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One year after the implementation of the Durbin Amendment rules and the outlook for CU debit interchange is mixed, with transaction-driving strategies working amid concerns about whether the extra usage is driving sufficient revenue to overcome shrinking per-swipe income.

Analysts have plenty of suggestions for debit strategies post-Durbin.

DURHAM, N.C.-Self-Help CU said it has acquired several downtown parcels and is in the preliminary stages of planning a new development expected to be a key part of a downtown revitalization. It has joined with the local Quality of Life initiative, Habitat, Durham Community Land Trustee and others in the effort, and has been getting feedback from residents and business owners on the street. It has also hired two two Durham firms, DTW Architects and Planners and landscape architects Coulter Jewell Thames, P.A., to begin site planning and to make other determinations.

If it seems like credit unions are struggling to effectively leverage social media, at least they're in good company, there are plenty of other industries still searching for ways to build their own social media business case.

More than 600 credit unions have taken advantage of a new regulatory policy that exempts them from caps on business lending, but new data suggests that banks' fears of increased competition for business loans are overblown.

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NCUA examiners in 2013 will continue to focus on issues that have been a priority the last two years: general credit risk and interest rate risk from the increasing number of mortgages being booked by credit unions.

Security Service FCU, San Antonio, promoted Robert Williamson to SVP of real estate and development and hired Todd Freedman as a commercial loan officer.

The $1.6-billion Technology Credit Union is hailing a ruling by a California superior court judge that it does not have to reveal membership information.

A survey conducted by Texas Trust CU has found that just one in eight homeowners in its North Texas markets is interested in selling their house and buying another right now.

After a tumultuous summer, Vermont State Employees CU and the state's Department of Financial Regulation have reached an agreement over the CU's use of the words "bank" and "banking."

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We launched Day in the Life of Credit Unions sixteen years ago as a way to pay tribute to and help credit unions celebrate International Credit Union Week.

With the new IRR rules now in effect, credit unions should consider how to incorporate and ensure compliance with these components.

As credit unions offer online and mobile banking, their members are citing the quality, reliability and solid performance of these services. More credit unions should get on board.

This letter was written in response to SAFE CU CEO Henry Wirz' letter to the editor that ran under the headline "Credit Union Testimony Was Delusional" in the Sept. 17 edition.