Wisconsin's new Republican governor, Scott Walker, promoted Ginger Larson, supervisor in the Office of Credit Unions, to director of the division on Monday.

NCUA has a bias against small credit unions, the chairman of the National Association of Credit Union Chairmen charged Thursday.

With an eye on building green loan market share, Filene Research Institute and a Virginia consulting firm teamed up this week to quantify credit union practices based on a new survey tool distributed to CUs charting profit experience.

For the first time, the $155 million Valley Federal Credit Union of Billings, Mont., is reaching across the Wyoming border to expand, completing its first merger of the ailing $8 million Cody Schools FCU.

The $800 million Workers' Credit Union of Fitchburg, Mass., said Friday it has promoted Douglas J. Petersen, its interim president/CEO, to permanent status.

The $730 million CFCU Community Credit Union of Ithaca, N.Y., named Lisa Whitaker, former head of the $208 million COMSTAR FCU in Maryland, as its new president/CEO effective Feb. 7.

Illinois-based Credit Union 1, one of the leaders among privately insured CUs in the merger market, is ready to take over its third, small struggling CU in a year.

Two of southern Washington's largest credit unions, the $279 million Yakima Valley and the $184 million Catholic, both competitors in the same community, are planning a June merger.