LAS VEGAS -- With balance sheets in good shape and key lenders having exited the market, credit unions have a unique opportunity now to take full advantage of loan opportunities, said Lee Butke, CEO of Corporate One FCU.

LAS VEGAS -- With balance sheets in good shape and key lenders having exited the market, credit unions have a unique opportunity now to take full advantage of loan opportunities, said Lee Butke, CEO of Corporate One FCU.

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The Team Little Guy racing troupe found a new patron this week in Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.).

DENVER -- Thanks to a variety of factors, including some top lenders leaving the market, the $1.8 billion Bellco Credit Union is enjoying what it calls "an incredible spike" in mortgage applications--more than double last year--and is proceeding with funding a large percentage.

LAS VEGAS -- Squeezed in every direction from tight margins to growing online competition and now a "rebuked NCUA," this is hardly an easy time being a credit union director Bruce Jolly told a volunteer gathering today.

LAS VEGAS -- Credit union directors got an earful today from one of their peers, a 21-year-old Los Angeles college student at USC Credit Union, about failings in online operations and continued missteps in how CUs approach the youth market.

WASHINGTON -- A three-year-old program of the National Credit Union Foundation extending grants to those of modest means during a tight economic period is witnessing a spike in requests as a result of the poor economy and rise in foreclosures.

PHOENIX -- In what is being seen as both a surprising and disquieting disclosure, the $1.9 billion Arizona Federal Credit Union last week reported $42.5 million in midyear losses, one of the largest of its kind among recession-scarred CUs in California and Arizona.