Oregon credit unions this week are celebrating several key victories in the state legislature including passage of bills to clean up language on nonmember products, allowing CUs to receive homeowner and condo association deposits and new oversight on financial literacy.

Oregon credit unions this week are celebrating several key victories in the state legislature including passage of bills to clean up language on nonmember products, allowing CUs to receive homeowner and condo association deposits and new oversight on financial literacy.

A Texas-based grassroots campaign to support the military and called "AdoptaPlatoon," is finding a Fort Worth credit union a major CU booster and winning praise this week for shipping supplies and letters to U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The "JA's BizKid$" show airing on PBS stations this fall was the object of hoopla here and a special $5.2 million check presentation ceremony witnessed by 600 field leaders from Junior Achievement Worldwide to mark CU funding for the financial education show.

Adopting a novel approach to payday lending, the $1.1 billion Arizona State Credit Union is partnering with a Tucson health care employer to help its workers "break the debt cycle" to payday shops.

Governor Matt Blunt has signed into law the much-fought Field of Membership bill climaxing years of bank/credit union clashing.

The $720 million Elevations Credit Union has cleared a huge regulatory and field of membership hurdle in expanding into two Colorado counties.

Though the $575 million University of Iowa Community Credit Union will know better next time how to conduct a name change, management can only look back now on "Optiva" as a $100,000 gaffe.