DUBLIN, Ohio -- Credit unions here and in Pennsylvania were expecting this week to be stepping up their promotion of payday alternative products, including StretchPay and Better Choice, in the wake of major legislative and regulatory setbacks to the payday industry.

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. -- The industry's national promotion of the BizKid$ financial literacy shown on public TV, now carried on 311 participating stations, won another boost Monday with mention of the series in USA Today.

SEATTLE -- Jeffry Pilcher, creative director and strategist at Weber Marketing Group the last eight years and who has played a role in some of the biggest credit union rebranding campaigns, is going out on his own this month to form an on-line branding firm, publication and blog.

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- In a sharp setback for payday lenders, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that Advance America, the nation's largest payday lender, violated the state's Consumer Discount Company Act subjecting the firm to return of consumer funds.

DEERFIELD, Ill. -- San Francisco-based Patelco Credit Union is writing the book this year on the nurturing of SEGs considering its stellar record for the giant Walgreens drug chain as measured in member growth and loan volume.

PHOENIX -- The fight over payday lending in Arizona could be headed to the ballot box this November with Arizona credit unions adopting an informal hands-off stance opting instead for a greater financial education push in the schools and public forums.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Last Thursday's devastating tornado and hail storm which hit the nearby community of Windsor had two credit union victims: Robert Hoel, the retired head of the Filene Research Institute, who lost his car and an old Norlarco Credit Union branch, now part of Public Service CU,...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Last Thursday's devastating tornado and hail storm which hit the nearby community of Windsor had two credit union victims: Robert Hoel, the retired head of the Filene Research Institute, who lost his car and an old Norlarco Credit Union branch, now part of Public Service CU,...