Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater delivered his formal letter of resignation this week with his final day being June 30, the end of the current fiscal year. Atwater previously announced he would leave his post for the position of vice...
The Department of the Treasury released a report Monday outlining more than 100 changes to financial regulations. CUNA is analyzing the report. “We are carefully reviewing the Treasury’s report. Based on our initial review, the report...
Last Thursday, the U.S House of Representatives passed the Financial CHOICE Act, sending the legislation to the Senate for consideration. As the full House prepared for a vote, members of the Florida and Alabama Congressional delegations went on the...
Achieva Credit Union headquartered in Dunedin, FL, announced this week that it has formed a national mergers and acquisitions consulting group to help credit unions buy banks. Achieva Merger Services will assist credit unions and banks in...
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the Financial CHOICE (Creating Hope and Opportunity for Investors, Consumers and Entrepreneurs) Act by 233-186. Rep. Jeb Hensarling’s (R-Texas) legislation contains regulatory relief provisions that...
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (Bank) has begun the election to fill certain directorships on the Bank’s board of directors, including the member directorship for the state of Alabama, the member directorship for the District of Columbia, and...
During March, credit unions picked up 592,000 in new memberships, loan and savings balances grew at a 13.4 percent and 7.8 percent seasonally-adjusted annualized pace, respectively. Firms hired 79,000 workers, nominal consumer spending was...
Malauzai Software, Inc., a mobile and internet banking firm, recently released a report that aggregated statistics from more than 435 banks and credit unions, covering 13.2 million logins from 730,000 active internet and mobile banking users. The...
It’s hard to believe that the Southeast Credit Union Conference & Expo (SCUCE) is just nine days away! This conference is the largest annual gathering of Alabama and Florida credit union officials each year, and the LSCU & Affiliates team...
The LSCU is proud to recognize those professionals, volunteers, young professionals, and credit unions that have made outstanding contributions to the development and growth of the credit union movement. To assist in that well-deserved recognition...