Geoff Bacino

• Editor-in-Chief's Column: Member Growth, Consolidation and Bigger CUs

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  December 16, 2011

  I know what I’m talking about at least half the time: my 2011 predictions were hit and miss.

• NCUA Nominee Decker Faces Political Gauntlet

  By Claude R. Marx  |  October 30, 2011

  The NCUA is a low-profile agency, but that may not prevent the nomination of Carla M. Decker from getting caught up in pre-election political wrangling.

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  Bank Transfer Day: CUs Preparing, Promoting

  By Claude R. Marx  |  October 17, 2011

  If more people transfer their accounts to credit unions because of Bank Transfer Day. it could be a mixed blessing for some credit unions. However, that’s a problem many credit unions would be glad to worry about.

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  CUs Brace for Blog-Inspired Bank Transfer Day: Print Preview

  By Claude R. Marx  |  October 14, 2011

  This article will be among the news, features, analysis and insight filling the pages of the next print edition of Credit Union Times.

• Bank Transfer Day: CU Experts See Mixed Blessing in More Deposits

  By Claude R. Marx  |  October 11, 2011

  Low interest rates and business lending caps would strain reinvestment but checking account fee income could rise.

• No Plan for NCUSIF Exits Hits Sour Note

  By Claude R. Marx  |  September 18, 2011

  The NCUA says it's not developing a contingency plan for helping credit unions that stay deal with any new costs from more departures.

• With No Successor in Sight, Hyland Retains Her Seat

  By Claude R. Marx  |  September 18, 2011

  NCUA Board Member Gigi Hyland doesn’t have to order a moving van any time soon. Even though her term on the board expired on Aug. 2, President Obama hasn’t nominated anyone to succeed her.

• Prepayment Plan Sleeps With the Fishes

  By Claude R. Marx  |  August 10, 2011

  Saying it only received $369.9 million in pledges, the NCUA announced last week that it will not go forward with the program allowing credit unions to prepay some of their assessments on the cost of

• NCUA Threatens Investment Banks With Litigation Over Corporates' Mortgage-Backed Securities

  By Claude R. Marx  |  March 30, 2011

  The NCUA has threatened to sue four investment banks if they don’t refund $50 billion from the sale of mortgage-backed securities to five corporate credit unions that the agency conserved last year, according to several sources within the credit union industry.

• Is Your CU Pulling Enough Political Weight?

  January 12, 2011

  Most of us can agree that we didn't begin our careers with credit unions because it was a way to get rich but because the movement is something we believe in.