Despite backing by Missouri lawmakers, those 10 small highway credit unions remain under orders to close their offices in two years and have their 27 employees cut from the payroll Sept. 30, state officials reported today.

Using a cooperative list serve network, Mississippi credit unions are banding together this week to raise funds to help victims of last Saturday's devastating Yazoo City tornadoes.

Silver State Schools Credit Union of Las Vegas, which received a $22 million capital infusion last February from its private insurer, is closing five branches in June operating under a "consent order" from the state, it was disclosed Wednesday.

The Biz Kid$ come to Wall Street today and they get to ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

All that "good press" about credit unions has certainly helped fuel the big gains in savings rates among southeast CUs.

Moneytree Inc., a Seattle payday lender, was hit late last week with a cease and desist order by Washington state regulators alleging the firm allowed borrowers to take out an excessive number of loans violating rescinding rules.

The Texas Credit Union League said today it has teamed up with the Texas Association of Business in an e-mail blitz to sway votes of U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn.

Patricia Smith, president/CEO of the $804 million Unitus Community Credit Union has been named by the Portland Business Journal as a member of the city's "Top 25 Women in Business."