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• Drought in Professionals Will Not End Soon

  By David Morrison  |  May 1, 2013

  Credit unions facing a lack of available and affordable mortgage loan professionals should not look for the staffing challenge to ease anytime soon, according to housing finance executives and consultants.

• Small Business Loans Up: SBA

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  March 20, 2013

  Quarterly report cites improving economic conditions, "meek lending environment."

• Credit Unions Evade Most New Mortgage Rules

  By Heather Anderson  |  January 30, 2013

  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released final mortgage rules that restrict loan originator compensation methods and increase the level of service loan servicers must provide to borrowers. However, due to the way credit unions already do business, trade associations say neither rule will have a major impact on the industry.

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  Dividends

  January 30, 2013

  CEFCU, Peoria, Ill., announced that a record extraordinary dividend of $9 million has been distributed to CEFCU members. The dividend was based on members’ savings and loan activity during, with $4.5 million going to borrowers and $4.5 million going to savers.

• NCUA Confirms Nearly All Credit Unions Qualify for CFPB’s Servicing Exemption

  By Heather Anderson  |  January 18, 2013

  CFPB final mortgage servicing rule hits slightly more than 200 of 6,900 federally insured credit unions.

• Commercial Real Estate Activity Mixed Across Districts: Fed

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  January 17, 2013

  Though a little weaker than residential real estate, reports on sales and leasing of nonresidential real estate are still mostly positive.

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  Sunny Days Returning to Florida

  By Candice Reed  |  December 19, 2012

  After six years of stagnation and economic hardship, Florida is slowly coming out of the recession cocoon.

• Changed MBL Landscape Prompts Northeast Shut Down

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  December 12, 2012

  While it might have been a surprise to most in the member business lending world when word came that the seven-year-old Northeast CUSO would be shutting down, the timing actually could not have come at a better time.

• Capital and Capitol Conundrums

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  December 12, 2012

  Sometimes things you didn’t think would affect you sneak up on you by surprise, whether out of nowhere or ignorance or you’re merely preoccupied with other things.

• Capital and Capitol Conundrums: Editor/Publisher's Column

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  December 6, 2012

  Dodd-Frank and credit unions, executive pay disclosure and why can't credit unions get some congressional kick?