Minnesota’s TopLine Federal Credit Union said Thursday it will be expanding its Twin Cities reach next month following its planned merger of the ailing $35 million Como Northtown Community CU of St. Paul.

Perhaps now the last credit union in the nation to file its year-end call reports, the long ailing Silver State Schools Credit Union of Las Vegas reported late Wednesday an improvement in its financial condition.

“Mountain West Credit Union Association” has been picked as the designated new name for the soon-to-be-merged Arizona-Colorado-Wyoming leagues.

Even with ongoing fallout, the shock of the corporate crisis may at last be wearing off, shedding a more positive light on some of the surviving corporates, according to Charles Emmer, the president/CEO of Ent Federal Credit Union.

Gary Soukenik, president/CEO of Seven Seventeen Credit Union, added his voice Monday to the chorus of credit union CEOs eager to become enthusiastic advocates for the industry on the newly formed Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve.

Gary Soukenik, president/CEO of Seven Seventeen Credit Union, added his voice Monday to the chorus of credit union CEOs eager to become enthusiastic advocates for the industry on the newly formed Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve.

Two Seattle area credit unions, the $564 million Watermark CU and the $544 million Sound CU of Tacoma, are planning a summer merger, creating the state’s fourth largest CU.

Two more credit union CEOs, one from Rapid City, S.D., and the other from Duluth, Minn., will be filling the so-called outreach slots on one of those Federal Reserve Board Advisory panels made of community bank and CU leaders serving district banks.