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MBL Participations Can Help You Serve Members: Guest Opinion

By Harvey Johnson

In a recent nationwide survey of small businesses, nearly two-thirds said it has become significantly harder to get loans today than just a few years ago. Similarly, a National Federation of Independent Business survey found a nearly 10% increase in the number of small businesses trying to borrow but no...

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TDR Rule Brightens CUs Financials

Credit unions that have restructured loans for struggling members no longer have to pay the price on their financial performance reports. Thats because a final rule released in May by the NCUA, which applied GAAP standards to the reporting of delinquent restructured residential mortgage loans, included a provision that released...

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August 12, 2012

Mortgage Market Share: Leaders Call for a Push for More

Executives from different parts of the credit union industry are hard at work to build credit unions share of the U.S. mortgage market even higher than the record 8% that credit unions achieved in the first quarter of this year.

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August 12, 2012

Auto Revival Wave Is There to Ride: Guest Opinion

Auto lending has traditionally been the backbone of many credit union lending operations. Some lenders have recently benefited from the Cash for Clunkers program and from the rebound in auto sales since the recession.

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August 10, 2012