The $218 million City Credit Union has painted an entire wall in its headquarters to help promote its mortgage program.

The $218 million City Credit Union has painted an entire wall in its headquarters to help promote its mortgage program.

Credit unions loans continued their decline in 2010, but credit unions made more loans for used cars, launched more credit card accounts and issued more first mortgage loans last year, according to NCUA.

The $22 billion State Employees' Credit Union has begun to prepare for what it expects may be a significant increase in the number of members seeking mortgage loan modifications.

Call it a sign of the times that when consumer card advocate Bill Hardekopf of LowCards.com praised two cards' debit rewards programs, they were not cards issued by financial institutions.

ASI Federal Credit Union became a low-income credit union before the low-income credit union designation, or even the NCUA, existed.

For San Antonio, Texas-based Generations Federal Credit Union, helping out members has meant making the sorts of loans it had never made before or had even contemplated making.

Changing economic circumstances among its members have led yet another mainstream credit union to the realization that it has effectively become a community development credit union.