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• Technology CU Files for Conversion to Bank

  By David Morrison  |  October 3, 2011

  San Jose CU says change would enable expansion of more profitable commercial lending business.

• Assessment Fears Widen to State-Chartered CUs

  By Claude R. Marx  |  August 17, 2011

  If more credit unions leave the NCUSIF, can the NCUA take steps to minimize the impact on those that remain?

• NCUA: Management Problems Caused Beehive CU Failure

  By Claude R. Marx  |  July 14, 2011

  Inspector General report says loan losses, investment concentrations doomed liquidated CU.

• Onsite Coverage: CUs, Banks Clash On MBLs

  By Claude R. Marx  |  June 16, 2011

  Hearing shows credit unions and banks still far apart on member business lending.

• 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.

• ABA: CUs Should Be Forced To Become Banks

  By David Morrison  |  September 3, 2010

  The American Bankers' Association has suggested some credit unions should be forced to become banks.

• Big Bang: Can Your Strategic Plan Accommodate The Special Assessment in 2010 and Beyond?

  March 31, 2010

  As credit union management and boards learn more about the amount of toxic assets in corporate and natural person credit unions, their conclusion about assessments changes from "something we have to live with" to "we can't live with that."

• Va. Bank Bill Morphs Into a Softer Compromise Measure in Senate

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  February 17, 2010

  For the time being, credit union concerns in Virginia and elsewhere over companion bills in the state Senate and House enabling banks to buy and merge credit unions have eased following committee action leading to likely passage.

• CU Culture Is Too Big-and Too Important-to Fail

  February 10, 2010

  The credit union culture is not only too big to fail-it's too important to fail.

• 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.