mutual savings bank conversion

• Leaders Re-Imagine the Industry’s Future

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  February 27, 2013

  CUNA’s Governmental Affairs Conference serves as an annual rally cry for credit unions. Like a good coach, it pumps up the team, provides direction and does a little cheerleading minus the short skirts. Gathering all of the players is great for bolstering that cooperative team spirit to approach Capitol Hill...

• Leaders Re-Imagine the Industry’s Future at GAC: Editor/Publisher's Column

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  February 25, 2013

  The aim of the GAC is political advocacy, but it should also reinvigorate credit union professionals with the cooperative nature of the industry.

• Biting the Hand That Feeds You

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  February 23, 2011

  Eighteenth century political theorist and philosopher Edmund Burke is credited with being the first to use the idea of "don't bite the hand that feeds you" in print.

• Virginia Senate Panel Votes Out, 15-0, Mutual Conversion Bill

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  February 9, 2010

  On a 15-0 vote of the Virginia Senate Commerce and Labor Committee, the now recast bankers' bill enabling state chartered credit unions to convert to mutual status cleared another hurdle this week as it appears headed for passage.