Perhaps encouraged by public support provided by leading national consumer advocates, more credit unions are stepping out to promote their credit card programs.

Anyone who catches part of Visa Inc's., advertising campaign linked to the Vancouver Olympic Games may be forgiven if it sounds an awful lot like the Visa campaign in support of the Beijing games.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank with a conservative reputation,

The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions is celebrating the inauguration of a new CDCU in Long Island City, a section of New York City.

Alberto Gonzalez, the leader of the hackers responsible for many of the most notable credit and debit card security breaches and frauds of the previous decade, will learn how much prison time he faces at a hearing in March.

The $73 million Self-Help Federal Credit Union, the California-based affiliate of $350 million Self-Help Credit Union in North Carolina, has gotten a bit bigger.

Credit unions have long become accustomed to holding the bag after hackers crack a retail payment system, but now some restaurateurs have filed suit against a provider of a payment system they say was not compliant with industry card security standards.

As some credit unions have changed from fixed rate cards to flexible rate cards to protect themselves from possible interest rate risks, they have faced some push back from members unhappy about the change.