Saying it has already picked up "an early positive buzz," Navy Federal Credit Union confirmed Tuesday it has launched a stepped-up national media campaign to promote its GEICO Insurance linkup.

The big winter storm barreling down on the Midwest today forced closing of some credit union offices in a number of states.

The year is starting out slow for credit union expansion in Colorado.

Another community bank CEO took over this week as the top credit union regulator in Ohio.

The $1.5 billion Merck Employees Federal Credit Union is forgoing its newly announced dues rebate from the New Jersey Credit Union League to be channeled toward financial literacy.

Next month, Oregon's Advantis Credit Union will celebrate its second big event marking participation in the national Homes for Our Troops campaign building homes for severely injured soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

San Francisco's deeply troubled Mission SF FCU, which embarked on an unusual fundraising campaign to keep it from collapsing, said Wednesday it may opt for a merger after all if it is unable to raise $200,000 by March 15 or perhaps sooner.

Volunteer compliance with new NCUA rules on financial literacy, which become effective this Thursday, has generated a new round of training and education programming across the U.S. One CUNA audio session last week drew 2,000 participants.