Charles Bruen

• Telesis Prompts Many Questions

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  April 22, 2012

  Many unanswered questions continued to swirl last week over the causes, fate and future course of the conserved $318 million Telesis Community Credit Union.

• Telesis Takeover Puts Member Business Lending on Trial

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  April 1, 2012

  After years on a regulatory watch list, NCUA and the California Department of Financial Institutions finally pulled the plug last week on the $318 million Telesis Community Credit Union, placing the Los Angeles-based credit union into conservatorship. The NCUA was appointed conservator, ending a troubled saga.

• Letter to Editor: Newt May Be Right on GSEs

  February 5, 2012

  I think that Newt Gingrich may be right about credit unions being government-sponsored enterprises. Consultant Dennis Dollar and others have criticized the presidential candidate and former speaker of the House for describing credit unions as GSEs.

• Letter: Obstructing Conversions Is Unsavory

  By Charles Bruen  |  November 13, 2011

  Credit Union Times recently published my letter [Oct. 12, page 30] where I argued that interfering with any credit union’s internal governance is an ugly business and is not proper behavior for a trade association.

• Letter: CUs Have an Obligation to Consider Charter Change

  By Charles Bruen  |  October 10, 2011

  There would appear to be disproportionate anguish in some credit union circles about the recent announcement that Technology Credit Union is considering changing its charter to that of a mutual savings bank.

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  Assessment Prepayment Plan Gets Tepid Support

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  July 3, 2011

  Credit unions and their trade groups appear to be voicing support for the NCUA plan to allow credit unions to prepay some of the cost of the bailout of corporate credit unions.

• First Entertainment CEO Shares NCUA Corporate Prepayment Plan Comments

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  June 2, 2011

  Even if the NCUA is not disclosing comments made by credit unions and interested parties regarding its corporate assessment prepayment plan, First Entertainment Credit Union CEO Charles Bruen was not at all shy about sharing his letter addressed to NCUA Board Secretary Mary Rupp with the press.

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  Top 3 Career Moves Young Credit Union Executives Should Make

  April 15, 2011

• Ailing CDCUs Stir Debate Over Future Viability

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  April 13, 2011

  The industry debate over the propriety of the public campaigns of small, deeply troubled inner city credit unions to raise capital among other CUs and the citizenry has generated lively and sometimes strident rhetoric.

• Dear Ben, Just a Note to....Dear Ben, Just a Note

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  February 2, 2011

  For the Federal Reserve employees who are diligently reviewing comment letters regarding the proposed regulation on interchange, it might have seemed like they were living in the movie Groundhog Day.