NEW YORK -- One of the messages Clifford Rosenthal, CEO of the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (Federation) had for Michael Fryzel, the new Chairman of the NCUA was that the agency needs to make chartering new credit unions a higher priority.

AUGUSTA, Maine -- Should KV Federal Credit Union eventually approve of a merger with a local savings bank, they may turn their backs on some good rates on their savings.

AUGUSTA, Maine -- Two of the four other credit unions in Augusta that the $51 million KV Federal Credit Union said it considered as merger partners before turning to Kennebec Savings Bank said that they were never consulted about a potential merger.

FREEPORT, Texas -- When Edward Speed, CEO of the $1.3 billion Texas Dow Employees Credit Union and a private pilot, heard that the $150 million Dow Louisiana Federal Credit Union desperately needed cash in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the answer was obvious.

AUGUSTA, Maine -- Should KV Federal Credit Union eventually approve of a merger with a local savings bank, they may turn their backs on some good rates on their savings.

AUGUSTA, Maine -- If the members of the $51 million KV Federal Credit Union vote to change to a mutual bank charter and merge with a local bank, they will continue to see at least some of their CU's staff at the bank.

AUGUSTA, Maine -- If the members of the $51 million KV Federal Credit Union vote to change to a mutual bank charter and merge with a local bank, they will continue to see at least some of their CU's staff at the bank.

AUGUSTA, Maine -- If members of the $51 million KV Federal Credit Union give up their credit union charter to merge with Kennebec Savings Bank they would move from one credit union surcharge-free ATM network to another to which the bank belongs.