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• Gains in Housing Market Expand Gateway to Credit Unions

  By David Morrison  |  October 31, 2012

  Thanks to the real estate bubble and its aftermath in the Great Recession, housing finance has become an increasingly important driver for credit union membership, according to credit union executives around the country.

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  Housing Market Gains Expand Gateway to Credit Unions: Print Preview

  By David Morrison  |  October 25, 2012

  Find out in this preview from next week's print edition how revived housing demand is driving credit union membership growth.

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  Brett Jorgenson Awakes Lending Giant at Gesa Credit Union

  By David Morrison  |  March 19, 2012

  As financial institutions, many people would suppose that credit unions make lending money a key focus of their business. But sometimes, over time, they lose some of that focus and fail to adapt their lending programs to members' changing economic needs. That is a little of what Brett Jorgenson found...

• Budget Cut, SBA Will Press On

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  February 23, 2011

  Even with a 45% cut in its 2012 fiscal year budget proposal, the SBA said it will still be able to support small businesses.

• Boomers' Education, Wealth and Marital Status Are The Major Factors in Retirement Asset Management

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  December 1, 2010

  Even thought they still request products such as loans, more sophisticated asset management services are being demanded by baby boomers that are poised to retire over the next decade.

• Battered Commercial Sector May See Some Healing in 2011

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  November 3, 2010

  The commercial lending landscape was predicted to be next the real estate bubble to burst this year. That forecast certainly came to fruition as financial institutions continue to grapple with losses with just two months left in 2010.

• Downturn Fundamentally Changed CU Mortgage Operations, Executives Say

  By David Morrison  |  September 29, 2010

  LAS VEGAS -- The economic downturn has forced many credit unions to take a more "real world" approach to their mortgage lending.

• Through Extremes, Nevada Federal Credit Union Continues Writing Mortgages

  By David Morrison  |  July 14, 2010

  At times, the mortgage program at Las Vegas-based Nevada Federal Credit Union has felt like an oasis of stability in the middle of a real estate market that has swung wildly from one extreme to another.

• Payments Conference Tries to Blaze a Bright Trail Through Dark Times

  By David Morrison  |  May 12, 2010

  WAILEA, Hawaii -- The meeting planners at PSCU Financial Services, the payments CUSO for more than 500 of the nation's credit unions, wanted to emphasize the positive at their annual Member Forum this year.

• On Site Coverage: Broader Issues Dominate Gingrich CU Talk

  By David Morrison  |  April 30, 2010

  MAUI, Hawaii - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich outlined for attendees at PSCU Financial Services Annual Forum what he called three great challenges that all Americans must confront if the country is to remain a world leader.