The Florida Office of Financial Regulation announced Friday that just as the National Credit Union Administration Board authorized federal credit unions to have three additional days to file Call Reports for the second and third quarters of 2016...
A CUNA-supported bill that would protect good-faith reporters of suspected elder financial abuse was approved last week by the House Financial Services Committee with a vote of 59-0. The Senior$afe Act of 2015 (H.R. 4538) was introduced by Reps...
Back in the day, as the saying goes, retail stores like Radio Shack advertised the latest and greatest technology. In his talk at the General Session at SCUCE yesterday, Filene Institute’s Andrew Downin took a look at one of those ads from the...
Yesterday, Gov. Robert Bentley established a predatory lending prevention task force consisting of a minimum of 33 members. The Executive Order creating the Alabama Consumer Protection Task Force states that the Alabama Credit Union Association will...
LSCU Cooperative Image Campaign recently released the latest ad in one of the most successful cooperative advertising campaigns ever presented by a League under its “Better Name for Banking” label. But the interesting news is the reach the comic...
On Friday evening, a jury in Lee County, AL, convicted Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard (R – Auburn) on 12 of 23 felony counts stemming from charges that he misused his office for personal gain. As part of the conviction, he has been removed...
Yesterday, LSCU learned the House Appropriations Committee approved a bipartisan amendment to the Financial Services Appropriation that would postpone the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s payday lending proposal by a 30-18 vote, with most...
Today, the House Appropriations Committee will mark up the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill. The report to accompany the bill was released yesterday, and it includes several statements advancing credit unions’ concerns...
Yesterday, speaking to the Economic Club of New York, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) revealed his Financial CHOICE Act to oust the Dodd-Frank Act. He called Dodd-Frank “a grave mistake Washington foisted upon...
With the ever-changing face of technology, one never knows just what will be the next big thing for the financial world. Credit unions should keep blockchain on their radar, says a CUNA blogger, who points out emphatically that this is not Bitcoin...