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GREENBELT, Md. Combine an uncertain economy with an unknown size of the NCUA assessments to pay for the problems of corporate credit unions and you have a recipe for rocky days ahead.

As credit union management and boards learn more about the amount of toxic assets in corporate and natural person credit unions, their conclusion about assessments changes from something we have to live with to we cant live with that.

The credit union culture is not only too big to failits too important to fail.

Restrictive capital requirements combined with the inability to raise secondary capital has left even well-managed CUs completely defenseless to the first-lien the system has on their capital.

SAN DIEGO Credit unions have a narrow window of unprecedented opportunity to capture market share.

Some healthy credit unions have called on Sandler ONeill to discuss the opportunity to add scale through merging with a troubled CU.

They may diverge on the correct means to the end, but this mornings Credit Union Times Best Practices Conference keynote speakers did agree that financial cooperatives have an unprecedented opportunity to redefine their culture and capture market share.

The clampdown on travel and conference expenses seems to be taking a sharp bite out of next weeks big meeting of credit union directors in Las Vegas.

There has never been a more appropriate time for all financial institutions, particularly CUs,

In credit union board meetings I have been presenting research explaining how the country and CUs spiraled into a financial and economic catastrophe,