mainstream financial services

• Self-Help FCU Purchases $141 Million in Mortgages

  By David Morrison  |  November 13, 2012

  Deal aimed at helping preserve integrity of Chicago neighborhoods.

• Cheney to House Ways & Means: CU Tax Status About Structure

  By Heather Anderson  |  August 3, 2012

  “It has never been about the power or mission of the credit union,” CUNA chief pens panel leaders in reply to ABA testimony.

• Serving the Underserved: Latino Community CU Held as a Model

  By Myriam DiGiovanni  |  August 10, 2011

  The Durham, N.C.-based credit union was recently featured in the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and Tayloe Murphy Center study, “Perdido en la Traduccion: The Opportunity in Financial Services for Latinos,” as a base model of the positive effects of mainstream financial services on the unbanked.

• CDCU to Serve Underserved of Battle Creek

  By David Morrison  |  March 31, 2010

  The first community development credit union that the NCUA has chartered in 2010 is focused on serving the underserved in the community that many see as the home of breakfast cereal in the U.S.

• New CDCU First CU Chartered in 2010

  By David Morrison  |  March 17, 2010

  The Inspire Community Development Federal Credit Union, a low-income designated community development credit union located in Battle Creek, Mich., is the first credit union the NCUA has chartered in 2010, according to the agency.