Lee Silber, bestselling author of "The Wild Idea Club," will be the opening keynote speaker at CUNA FUSE--Branch Operations and Business Development School, July 30-Aug. 2 at the Four Seasons in Las Vegas. ... More

Maps CU, Salem, Ore., provides a real-life example of how supplemental capital limits threatens the ability of credit unions to serve their memberships.... More

CUNA's high-level work on behalf of credit unions was highlighted this week in a front-page Washington Post item on the influence of lobbying groups in Washington.... More

Credit unions continue to make the most of the momentum created by last year's Bank Transfer Day, attracting around half a million new memberships in March, and these new memberships may be helping to bring some credit unions closer to the $10 billion-assets threshold that will subject credit unions to consumer protection enforcement and supervisory authority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.... More

Small business group Women Impacting Public Policy and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association are two of the latest groups to join the fight to increase the credit union member business lending cap, and CUNA has urged credit unions and their members to keep pressure on Congress as members of the U.S. House return to their home districts this week.... More

Concerned that another round of problems with the Internal Revenue Service's "automatic revocation process" for federal credit unions' tax exemption is about to occur, CUNA joined three other credit union groups in a bid to head off potential Form 990-T issues for credit unions.... More

The Credit Union Association of New York released its 2011 MORE (Member Outreach and Reinvestment Endeavor) Report--an annual compilation of New York credit unions' outreach efforts that indicates credit unions make a difference in their communities.... More

Credit unions will have a chance to interact with Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL) during a luncheon on June 14.... More

Six representatives from the Malawi Union of Savings & Credit Co-operatives Ltd. earlier this month traveled 8,600 miles to meet with their global peers at the Missouri Credit Union Association in pursuit of providing better service to their credit union members.... More

The Iowa Credit Union League has received the 2012 Stan Dreyer Spirit of Cooperation Award, which recognizes those who live and work with the spirit of the cooperative principles, presented by National Cooperative Bank.... More