NEW YORK -- One of the most immediate and tangible effects of a Barack Obama Administration may be an easing of the pressure on the U.S. Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institution's fund.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-- Credit Union 24's surcharge free programs, CU Here and CU Here Premium, is on track to save the members of participating credit unions at least $20 million dollars, the ATM and EFT network has announced.

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Credit union card balances and the rate of charge-offs have both been rising over the past year in the U.S, according to NCUA data, but not in the same states.

NEW YORK -- When the going gets tough, the tough don't retire. That is one of the lessons Clifford Rosenthal, CEO of the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions has drawn from the current down economy.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Elan Financial Services, a subsidiary of US Bancorp, will offer agent issuing credit union partners the opportunity to issue the Visa Signature card.

NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- The Illinois Credit Union League is encouraging more of the state's credit unions to get involved with a federal program that can put relatively large lump sums of money in the hands of lower income credit union members.

WASHINGTON -- The latest round of grants from the National Credit Union Foundation will go to support lower income entrepreneurship training in North Carolina, Latino homebuyers in Iowa and America's Credit Union Museum in New Hampshire.

SAN DIEGO -- California officials have ramped up their attempts to stem the tide of foreclosures in the Golden State by filing two more lawsuits against lenders accused of predatory lending.