LAS VEGAS – Just 16 months into retirement, well-known credit union veteran Patsy Van Ouwerkerk has joined the team of Las Vegas-based credit union consultancy Mitchell, Stankovic and Associates.

A cybersecurity assessment tool designed to help financial institutions bolster their defenses against hackers and other cybercriminals is continuing to sow confusion among financial executives, with some arguing it is effectively imposing tougher standards on the industry.

Turns out young adults aren’t the only ones who want mobile access to their banking 24/7, but the good news is all that stuff you’re doing for millennials is probably making other members happy, too.

As increasing numbers of employers turn to high-deductible health plans that are tied to health savings accounts, and due to the high-transactional nature of the account, that’s good news for CUs, according to Kevin Boyles of Ascensus.

It's not enough to create a big data warehouse. The whole point is to tease out the intelligence all that information offers and use it to create better products and services to grow your credit union.

If you're going to make your members spend precious time providing you with all that data, the least you could do is actually make good use of it.

Several bankers left a high-profile meeting with the Financial Accounting Standards Board feeling more comfortable with a plan to change reserve accounting. The meeting was thrown into an abrupt recess after a FASB director and a bank lobbyist clashed over recent statements by FASB's chairman linking community banks to the financial crisis.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Altura Credit Union on Thursday reported net income of $5.95 million on total assets of nearly $1.2 billion as of Dec. 31.

The House passed a bill Thursday 250-169 that would limit regulators' ability to force banks to cut ties with certain businesses despite Democratic fears that it could hamstring the Justice Department's ability to prosecute bankers responsible for the financial crisis.

According to Miriam De Dios, CEO of Coopera, the growing Hispanic segment of Iowa's population often does not have access to responsible and affordable financial products and services.

Credit unions that use the right tools when analyzing data are cutting down on fraud, attracting millennials and developing creative marketing campaigns, among other things.

Four years after leading the credit union through a controversial bid to convert to bank charter that was put down by the membership, Technology CU CEO Barbara Kamm has announced her retirement with a successor—current CFO Todd Harris—already in place.

CU*NorthWest on Wednesday said it distributed more than 50% of its 2015 net earnings to the CUSO's owners in the form of a patronage dividend.

NCUA reports conserved credit union has taken "several steps to address financial and management issues affecting the safety and soundness of its operations."

After 26 years of serving as Smart Financial Credit Union’s CEO, Gary Tuma retired effective Dec. 31, the $632 million CU said Wednesday.

Community Choice Credit Union in Farmington Hills, Mich., has given about $1.8 million to its members through a rewards program.

All it takes to bridge the divide between and credit unions and banks - and lawmakers on opposite ends of the political spectrum - is a controversial accounting change that threatens to harm members of both industries.

Though a core vendor search and conversion can be time consuming – as well as overwhelming – there are strategies to help make the process less cumbersome and stressful. Three institutions share their stories.

WASHINGTON – The current financial regulatory structure is ill-suited for innovation, but a legislative effort to fix that may still be a long way off, according to top House Republican lawmakers.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Wednesday that too few institutions offer checking accounts that discourage or prevent overdraft charges, and those that do have not advertised them.