SAN FRANCISCO -- California's Department of Financial Institutions has told its state chartered credit unions that it will file a 990 form with the Internal Revenue Service for at least one more year.

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fl. -- Data collected by CardTrak.com, a Web site which tracks credit card trends, shows that U.S. credit card issuers increased the amount of fees they charged cardholders 6% last year.

RICHMOND, Va. -- A significant amount of time might have to pass before the Coalition for Credit Union Charter Options (CCUCO) gets the chance to appeal its recent court loss to NCUA.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- An advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) is on the agenda for the Jan. 24 meeting of the NCUA Board, signaling that the agency may seek to tweak its rules both on CU to bank charter change and on insurance still further.

SALT LAKE CITY & ODESSA Texas -- NCUA's policy of requiring credit unions considering conversions to facilitate communication among members about the conversion appears to have fostered strong debate about the topic at two CUs currently thinking about making the change.

SALT LAKE CITY & ODESSA Texas -- NCUA's policy of requiring credit unions considering conversions to facilitate communication among members about the conversion appears to have fostered strong debate about the topic at two CUs currently thinking about making the change.

WASHINGTON -- Credit Union Development Educators are sponsoring an anti-hunger event to he held in Washington, D.C. during CUNA's Government Affairs Conference.

WASHINGTON -- Predictably Edward Yingling, CEO of the ABA, decried First Community Credit Union's litigation against the IRS and argued instead that the CU and all state chartered CUs should pay taxes on income the IRS has deemed unrelated to their core missions.