WASHINGTON - Executives of low-income and community development credit unions report their institutions generally find CUNA supportive but added that the association too often seems caught up with the interests and agendas of large credit unions. In a series of recent conversations with Credit Union Times, four execs outlined what...

EL PASO, Texas - A credit union service organization, founded by a coalition of local credit unions with help from credit union foundations, has enabled 28 low income El Paso families to own their own homes and is arranging to help an additional 30 attain the same goal, according to...

HENDERSON, N.C. - When the $1.5 million Gateway Community Development Credit Union formally reorganizes and opens its doors as Generations Community Credit Union on November 1, its officers and those of its reorganization sponsors, hope it does so as a powerful vehicle for spreading credit unions even further across the...

LATHAM, N.Y. - One year, almost to the day, after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, trustees for the New York Credit Union Foundation will meet to decide how the Foundation will divide up the bulk of the $1.4...

MADISON, Wis - Although New York-based Municipal Credit Union could not have made a claim for insurance money to make up for its recently revealed $15 million loss to ATM fraud, and even though the U.S. Congress has yet to resolve the terrorism insurance issue, CUNA Mutual reiterated its commitment...

THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. - A group of fewer than 10 community activists has managed, by dint of persistence and perseverance, to bring a credit union organizing effort to the very brink of success. If, by the end of this year, the Thurston Union of Low Income People (TULIP) credit union...

WASHINGTON - Starting a marketing effort, renovating a new building and buying a new computer system are among the ways money from the U.S. Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) fund will help community development credit unions this year. CDFI's Small and Emerging CDFI Assistance (SECA) program awarded money...

WASHINGTON - While the recent fraud stemming from withdrawals from Municipal CU's ATMs attracted national headlines, the ATM sector itself may be ripe for major liability lawsuits and could face one sooner rather than later. That's the view of an attorney with years of experience working with ATM providers and...