American Bankers Association

• Stop Honking: Cook Bankers’ Christmas Goose

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  December 5, 2012

  Third-quarter figures for federally insured credit unions last week were welcome news and the result of a lot of hard work by credit union professionals around the country. Certainly not a gift, though we all appreciate those (iPad2, please), but something to savor because you’ve earned it.

• Stop Honking and Cook Bankers’ Christmas Goose: Editor/Publisher's Column

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  November 29, 2012

  Credit unions and consumers deserve the gift that keeps on giving – burgeoning membership and expanded services, including small business lending.

• ‘Skunk at a Garden Party’: Bankers Reject MBL-TAG Package

  By Heather Anderson  |  November 26, 2012

  ICBA exec calls NAFCU letter to senators supporting the package bill "obscene."

• Four CU Lobbyists Lauded by Capitol Hill Publication

  By Heather Anderson  |  October 31, 2012

  NAFCU, CUNA leaders tabbed as top lobbyists by The Hill.

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  Big Ideas from the CU Water Cooler Symposium: An Audio-Visual Roundup

  By Myriam DiGiovanni  |  October 16, 2012

  Here's an audio-visual roundup of some of the best speakers and ideas shared at the CU Water Cooler Symposium held Oct. 4-5 in Nashville, Tenn.

• From NCUA to Technology to Soul Searching: Editor/Publisher's Column

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  October 14, 2012

  At the Credit Union Enterprise Risk Management conference earlier this month, a senior official at the NCUA declared that the agency is taking a more qualitative approach rather than quantitative in its examinations. Tim Segerson, deputy director of the Office of Examination and Insurance, acknowledged that credit unions that don’t...

• Swipe Cap Hearing in D.C. Court

  By David Morrison  |  October 14, 2012

  The question of whether or not the Federal Reserve went far enough or too far in capping debit card interchange in accord with the Durbin amendment went before a U.S. District Court Judge recently.

• From the NCUA to Technology to Soul Searching: Editor/Publisher's Column

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  October 11, 2012

  How to turn the good ship NCUA around is among questions pondered in this week's column from Sarah Snell Cooke, Credit Union Times' editor/publisher.

• Forces at Work to Lift Veil of Secrecy Around CEO Pay

  By Robert McGarvey  |  October 1, 2012

  The email from a usually voluble credit union executive who had been asked to comment on the secrecy that surrounds compensation of top managers at federally chartered credit unions said, “Too touchy of a subject for me. Sorry.”

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  Adapting to a Digital Self-Service Model

  October 1, 2012

  Credit union members are increasingly demanding more online interaction from their institutions. The request is forcing credit unions to adjust websites and self-service portals to accommodate members.