David Morrison is a senior staff reporter with Credit Union Times specializing in debit cards, among other topics.

Even though the vast majority of credit unions never abused credit card holders the way many big bank issuers did,

A startup credit reporting firm is offering consumers a way to have their routine payments build up their credit scores while earning rewards.

This year will go down as the one in which the real estate and mortgage markets in many areas moved from a sense of crisis to one where credit unions began to find a little bit of stability.

The year 2010 will be remembered as when the federal government got involved in how much interchange banks and credit unions earn on their debit card transactions.

The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions worries that new NCUA examiners may not be trained in the issues particular to the CUs many will be sent to examine.

Credit unions with credit card portfolios worth more than $1 million saw their balances grow at the slowest rate in the last five years, according to NCUA data.

The Federal Reserve did not survey small debit card issuers about their costs of issuing before it issued rules that will directly impact their income from debit card interchange.