MBL cap

• Reid Takes Action on Bankers' TAG Legislation

  By Heather Anderson  |  November 27, 2012

  Community bankers get what could be early Christmas gift from Senate Majority Leader.

• MBL Package Deal Would Benefit Banks

  By Heather Anderson  |  November 20, 2012

  Trades pushing to package TAG with MBL cap hike to make it more passable.

• Life Raft For Small CUs Is Floated

  By Heather Anderson  |  September 24, 2012

  If the NCUA board’s proposed $30 million limit to define small credit unions stands, 1,603 credit unions would be excluded from risk-based net worth requirements and a provision of the interest rate risk rule, according to the NCUA’s action memo on the topic.

• Business Lending Gets Lost in Election Shuffle: Editor-Publisher's Column

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  September 13, 2012

  It's not that the issue isn't important. It's just that it's politics.

• Nearly Half of Michigan’s Credit Unions Now Offer Business Loans

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  September 6, 2012

  MCUL says 46% of state's 309 credit unions now in the member business lending business.

• Ohio Congressmen Makes Rounds to Back MBL Cap Increase

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  August 27, 2012

  U.S. Reps. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) and Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) paid visits to credit unions this month to reiterate their support for raising the MBL cap.

• AM Community CU May Have Been Over Extended on MBL

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  August 27, 2012

  Against a backdrop of a groundswell of support to expand business lending authority, one outcome is becoming an unfortunate black eye on those efforts.

• Low-Income Credit Unions’ MBL-to-Assets Far Below Cap

  By Heather Anderson  |  August 21, 2012

  NCUA says vast majority of LICUs already were below cap, same with the 1,003 offered the new opt-in.

• Oregon, Washington CUs Grow MBLs by 9%

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  August 20, 2012

  Between March 2011 and March 2012, credit unions in Oregon and Washington grew their business lending by 9% to nearly $2.5 billion.

• NCUA Opt-in Low-Income Measure Heats Up MBL Politics

  By Heather Anderson  |  August 9, 2012

  CU trades offer measured praise while ICBA blasts administration move as "outrageous."