Field of membership

The credit union's expanded FOM will cover multiple counties and townships.

In January alone, before new field of membership rules took effect, NCUA approved nearly 25% of the number of charter expansions as in 2015 and 2016. Could that be just a taste of what’s to come?

The industry had cause to celebrate when the regulator revamped its MBL and FOM regulations, but several fights are brewing.

An inside look at growth strategies from some of the top 10 CUs for potential membership growth.

Municipal CU and Healthcare Financial FCU have both widened their potential fields of membership.

Once upon a time, credit unions could serve anyone they wanted and there was no such thing as “common bond.” Sounds like a fairy tale, but it turns out a select few still can.

What if your credit union could serve every man, woman and child in the U.S.? Turns out a select few already can.

One reader decries inconsistencies in a recent CUJ op-ed.

The hurdles for bank-to-CU conversions are in almost all cases too big to for for-profit institutions to overcome and still operate responsibly.