Patty Briotta

• CFPB Creates Liaison Office

  By Heather Anderson  |  April 23, 2013

  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has created a new Office of Financial Institutions and Business Liaison.

• Obama’s Inauguration, King Day Closes Washington

  By Heather Anderson  |  January 21, 2013

  Inauguration, national holiday shutters credit unions in the capital and across the land.

• Hurricane Sandy: Disaster Prep Under Way as Storm Looms

  By Marc Rapport  |  October 26, 2012

  CUNA Mutual Group activates disaster team as late season hurricane makes menacing move toward Mid-Atlantic, Northeast states.

• CU/Bank Search Engines Still in High Gear

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  November 23, 2011

  Those online find-a-credit-union-or-bank search services are still getting a workout post-Bank Transfer Day.

• Bank Transfer Day: Trades Still Adding Up Numbers

  By Claude R. Marx  |  November 7, 2011

  The results of Bank Transfer Day apparently were very good for credit unions but CUNA and NAFCU said Monday they are still determining just how good.

• Bank Transfer Day: Soak Up the Attention, Then Build Momentum

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  November 6, 2011

  Bank Transfer Day was lauded for helping to nudge consumers toward credit unions. It was belittled as mere media hype. It was feared it would only bring in deposits and not loans, which would tip delicately balanced capital ratios.

• Bank Transfer Day: Senator’s Tweets Help Drive Visits to NAFCU’s CU Lookup

  By Claude R. Marx  |  November 5, 2011

  Vermont's Sanders sends Tweets directing followers to NAFCU's CULookup.com

• Bank Transfer Day: Trades Doing Last-Minute Preparations

  By Claude R. Marx  |  November 4, 2011

  CUNA and NAFCU reaching out in what CUNA vice president calls "the biggest surge in media interest in credit unions in at least 10 years."

• Bank Transfer Day: Consumers Search, CUs Savor, CUNA Cautions

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  October 18, 2011

  Social media and other websites continue to show surges in interest about credit unions on Tuesday as Bank Transfer Day approaches.

• NCUA Part 704 Proposed Changes: Do They Matter?

  By Robert McGarvey  |  August 30, 2011

  Experts are mulling the import of what may be more than just technical changes in Part 704 rules by the NCUA.