The winners of the NAFCU/PAC 2014 White Hat Award and the Credit Union Challenge Award were announced during the trade group's annual Conference and Solutions Expo in Montreal.

There's been a lot of talk about futuristic branches. Here's how two CUs have already implemented their own strategies to take their networks to the next generation.

A senior civil rights official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is poised to tell Congress Thursday that the agency willfully disregards the process for handling internal employee complaints of discrimination and has repeatedly retaliated against staff who spoke out.

CUNA Mutual Group has launched its new mortgage payment protection product for credit unions and their members.

The CFPB is helping to reshape mortgage and payday lending, but its attempts to curb abuses in auto lending have been largely stymied by car dealers and the fragmented nature of auto finance.

TRENTON, N.J. — The Garden State will soon have a new banking commissioner.

SECU of Maryland has licensed Rate Reset to allow members to "reset" loan rates without going through a formal refinancing process.

The percentage of funds that NCUA annually transfers to its operating budget from the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund to cover expenses of the agency — known as the "overhead transfer rate" — is subject to notice and comment requirements under federal law, according to a legal analysis by NASCUS.

Senate Democrats are urging regulators to investigate potential discrimination in how financial institutions handle and market foreclosed homes.

Ascend FCU sponsors new amphitheater and other CU contributions to their communities.

Officials at NAFCU say they have been considering allowing federally insured, state-chartered, credit unions into the trade group for nearly a decade. NAFCU announced Tuesday that it had changed its bylaws to expand membership to nearly all CUs in the nation.

NAFCU is expanding its membership to include federally insured, state-chartered credit unions, putting it directly at odds with CUNA, which had previously been the only trade representing both federally and state-chartered institutions.

Jack Henry & Associates Inc. announced that F.C.I. Federal Credit Union has selected and converted to its CruiseNetcore processing system.

According to the agency's 2014 Annual Report, NCUA failed to meet all of its targets — in some cases even losing ground — for increasing the number of females, minorities and persons with disabilities at all levels of the organization, including management.

Nonbank lender HomeBridge Financial Services has lifted the curtain on a new mortgage platform aimed at community banks and credit unions.

Chrome hires business banking expert and other new hires, promotions and awards.

The Credit Union Executives Society's board of directors on Monday named John Pembroke as the organization's new president and CEO, effective immediately.

WASHINGTON — Regulators finalized a rule Monday requiring financial institutions to escrow flood insurance premiums and fees for loans on real estate located in a flood zone.

Catholic FCU earns recognition, Hanscom supports military and more community news.

MONETT, Mo. — Jack Henry & Associates, Inc., provider of technology solutions and payment processing services primarily for the financial services industry, said Tampa, Fla.-based Suncoast Credit Union selected Episys for its core processing.