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European CUs Preparing for Life With Single Regulator

SAN DIEGO - The World Council of Credit Unions will wrap up its fall board meeting here today, concluding a thrice-yearly event in which all 14 members of the board meet together in person.

By Heather Anderson | Updated on November 11, 2008

SAN DIEGO – The World Council of Credit Unions will wrap up its fall board meeting here today, concluding a thrice-yearly event in which all 14 members of the board meet together in person. While the meeting was mostly business as usual, according to President/CEO Pete Crear, the group did take time to discuss the global banking crisis and the different ways it is affecting-or not affecting-WOCCU members.

Board Treasurer Grzegorz Bierecki, who represents Poland’s National Association of Cooperative Savings and Credit Unions, spoke with Credit Union Times yesterday, and said European credit unions are bracing themselves to be regulated by a singular agency. The decision to regulate all European financial institutions under the same roof was made two weeks ago during an EU summit meeting, he said.

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