Credit Union Management

One Vermont CU finds planning essential, but not enough.

One Vermont CU finds planning essential, but not enough.

Western Bridge expected to operate for a year

The credit union serving the now-closed hospital with the trauma center nearest to Ground Zero is shutting down.

For months it has been the sand states getting all the merger attention. But last weeks consolidation move by the $2.6 billion Visions FCU, Endicott, N.Y., to take over the long-ailing $330 million Paragon FCU in New Jersey shifted the merger focus to the Mid-Atlantic.

Ask Joel Dahlgren how to build a bigger, more financially stable, better-capitalized credit union and this Minnesota lawyers advice is surprising: regularly give away capital to members.