GREENSBORO, N.C. --Through lower fees and loan costs plus higher deposit rates, North Carolina consumers have saved $529 million in a single year, according to results from an updated study released Tuesday and produced by a University of Alabama economist and former finance adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of...

WICHITA, Kan. -- The storefront branch operated by a credit union to offer alternative payday loans has taken root in Kansas.

WICHITA, Kan. -- Expected but still comforting, Kansas credit unions over the weekend heard directly from some of their most loyal lawmakers who came to their defense in the just concluded confrontation with the banking lobby over a "compromise" July 1 law restricting field of membership expansion.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The bidding interest by credit unions into merging the failed $339 million Cal State 9 CU of Concord, now in NCUA conservatorship, appeared to be spiking Monday with at least one large Illinois CU, the $3.6 billion Citizens Equity First reportedly now in the fray.

WICHITA, Kan. -- The Kansas Credit Union Association said Friday it is launching starting in May a three-phase education program with its 88 state-chartered CUs to ensure they are well prepared for the start of the new field of membership/merger law which takes effect July 1.

DENVER -- Carving out a special niche in financial literacy and aiding the underserved, the Credit Union Association of Colorado/Wyoming unveiled Friday a new web-based financial education series through its foundation and at the same time signed on with the Real Solutions program of the National Credit Union Foundation.

TOPEKA, Kan. -- Kansas has a new landscape for credit union growth, and the affected are still fretting over the outlook.

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Citing new rate-cutting rules and lowering of the guarantee, the $1 billion Spokane Teachers Credit Union is exiting the guaranteed federal student loan business effective this fall.