NEW YORK — The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions announced the expansion of Juntos Avanzamos (Spanish for "Together We Advance"), a designation for credit unions committed to serving and empowering Hispanic consumers.

LINO LAKES, Minn. — Core processing provider Sharetec System said it has partnered with Allied Payment Network to provide credit unions with several payments technologies.

Hudson River Teachers Federal Credit Union, a $51-million institution based in Mohegan Lake, N.Y., has changed its name to Hudson River Financial Federal Credit Union, effective immediately.

United Educational Credit Union, a $123-million institution based in Battle Creek, Mich., announced it will re-brand itself as "BlueOx Credit Union," effective January 1, 2016.

Hackers did not steal banking or payments data from Experian, but they might as well have. Breaches like the one sustained at the company call into question the entire system of identification financial institutions rely on to open accounts and conduct other everyday business.

Just because you've issued chip-enabled cards to all your cardholders doesn't mean your job is done, experts caution.

For the second time, FinCEN concerns about credit unions have been aired publicly, instead of in private communication with NCUA, and once former NCUA chairman hopes this doesn’t become a habit.

Though the EMV liability has officially shifted, many card issuers are still in the process of rolling out chip-enabled cards, and there is no one right strategy.

Instead of trying everything at once, work to master one or two platforms at a time before moving on to new channels, suggests one social media expert.

There is something to be said for controlling the message, but when it results in no message at all, we're robbed of making informed decisions.

One CEO sums up industry frustration this way: 'Why ask the hard questions if you ignore the tough answers?'

The Virginia credit union's website offers concrete reasons for becoming a CU member instead of a bank customer.

Think of the Oct. 1 liability shift date for EMV cards as a beginning—not an ending.

Rules set by Visa and MasterCard suggest that by Oct. 1, CUs and banks will all be issuing EMV-compliant cards and retailers will have the technology to accept them. If one party is supporting EMV and the other is not, the delinquent entity will have to cover the cost of any fraud that ensues.

The practice court at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, home to the Indiana Pacers and Indiana Fever basketball teams here, is getting a new name.

In comments to the Treasury Department, traditional financial institutions are calling for more oversight of an industry that is fast becoming a big competitive threat.

The National Credit Union Administration has served three former credit union employees with prohibition orders barring them from working for any federally insured financial institutions.

With a rich history of providing credit to those who otherwise might not have had access to financial services, credit unions are in a unique position to reach out to this demographic.

When major card networks revealed the EMV chip card liability shift timeline four years ago, the Merchant Advisory Group was quick to make its stance clear: A conversion to chip cards won't mean a thing without a PIN authorization to go with it.

Oregon Community Credit Union says it leveraged the EMV liability shift date as a way to plant its flag as a technology leader among financial institutions in the Pacific Northwest.