Jim Blaine

• SECU Hosts Chinese Bank Visitors in Raleigh

  By Peter Strozniak  |  November 12, 2012

  Representatives were from four state-owned commercial banks, interested in learning about not-for-profit cooperative financial institutions.

• Disclose the Score and Take the CAMEL Through the Eye of a Needle: Opinion

  By Henry Wirz  |  September 24, 2012

  My credit union lost $23 million when WesCorp failed so I can say I have 23 million reasons to want CAMEL ratings disclosed.

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  Disclose the Score: Take the CAMEL Through the Eye of a Needle

  By Henry Wirz  |  September 24, 2012

  My credit union lost $23 million when WesCorp failed so I can say I have 23 million reasons to want CAMEL ratings disclosed.

• 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.

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  Matz Announces Low-Income Initiative for State CUs

  By Heather Anderson  |  September 17, 2012

  DENVER — The NCUA’s opt-in process for low income credit union designation may expand to include state-chartered credit unions, NCUA Chairman Debbie Matz announced last week during her keynote speech at the 2012 NASCUS Summit. The agency hopes to put the program into play later this month by working with...

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  Matz, Blaine in Tense Exchange over N.C. Exam Standoff: Onsite Coverage

  By Heather Anderson  |  September 12, 2012

  DENVER — SECU CEO Jim Blaine took NCUA Chairman Debbie Matz to task during a tense exchange about separate exams on Wednesday at the NASCUS summit.

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  CEO Pay: How Much Is Right?

  By Robert McGarvey  |  August 27, 2012

  Call CEO pay the credit union governance hot potato. “This is certainly an increasingly hot topic,” said attorney Michael Lozoff, chair of the credit union practice at Shutts and Bowen in Miami.

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  TDR Rule Brightens CUs Financials

  By Heather Anderson  |  August 12, 2012

  Credit unions that have restructured loans for struggling members no longer have to pay the price on their financial performance reports. That’s because a final rule released in May by the NCUA, which applied GAAP standards to the reporting of delinquent restructured residential mortgage loans, included a provision that released...

• Does NCUA Disdain the Dual System?

  By Heather Anderson  |  August 5, 2012

  The NCUA’s proposed rule that would allow it to declare state-chartered federally insured credit unions in “troubled condition” is the latest move by the federal regulator that has some state- chartered credit unions and their regulators crying foul.

• New TDR Rule Having Big Effect on Some Financial Performance Reports

  By Heather Anderson  |  August 3, 2012

  “Everybody in California is jumping up and down about this,” Patelco CFO Scott Waite said of the new rule.