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• Fed Report Finds Credit Union Tax Advantage Inconclusive

  By Heather Anderson  |  April 25, 2013

  St. Louis central bank researchers discovered similar growth patterns despite "the often-heated rhetoric of competing advocates."

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  To the Ramparts on Tax Exemption

  By Fred R. Becker Jr  |  December 19, 2012

  Let there be no doubt that credit unions’ federal tax exemption is something our industry is going to have to fight for in order to keep.

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

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  September 17, 2012

  Years ago before my time in credit unions, CUNA and NAFCU decided one would hold its Governmental Affairs Conference at the beginning of the congressional session and NAFCU would target the end. The lines have blurred some and lobbying receives more emphasis on the whole.

• 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.

• Past Trailblazer Winners Talk Trends and Concerns

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  December 18, 2011

  Volunteer training, dealing with growing compliance demands and staying profitable enough to stay alive.

• SBA Report Shows How CUs Filled in for Bank Lending Gap

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  September 15, 2011

  Between 1986 and 2010, credit unions may have provided extra business loans in response to a reduction in activity from banks.

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  Deliver the CU Proposition and Maximize Returns

  By Gary Tantleff  |  April 20, 2011

  A senior vice president with UBS' credit union groupo said the industry is at a crossroads and faces unprecedented challenges.

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  NJCUL’s Reality Check Provides a Wake-Up Call

  By Robert McGarvey  |  March 30, 2011

  Reality Check was the aptly chosen name for the New Jersey Credit Union League’s one and one-half day Atlantic City conference. Over the densely packed schedule of deep-dive presentations on topics of current interest to credit union executives, the several hundred attendees heard over and over two stark realities.

• Bill Cheney Interview Transcript

  October 27, 2010

  Read the complete transcript of an interview between Sarah Snell Cooke, editor-in-chief of Credit Union Times, and CUNA CEO Bill Cheney discussing his first 100 days in the position with links to video.

• Dakotas' League Launches Small Business Website

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  October 22, 2010

  Small businesses have another resource to turn to with a new site dedicated to them created by the Mid-America Credit Union Association, the trade group for credit unions in North and South Dakota.