Lending

A new, free credit score service that resides behind the online banking logon has been launched by the $342 million NorthCountry FCU of South Burlington, Vt., and the $877 million A+ FCU in Austin, Texas.

Mortgage, auto and consumer loans were up at Bethpage Federal Credit Union in October.

TransUnion, one of the three nationwide credit reporting bureaus, has forecast that the U.S. economy will stop adding many more mortgages to the delinquency pool in 2012 and will instead begin to work through the existing housing stock.

Since 2009, auto finance companies have increased their lending by more than 47%.

With just a few weeks left in 2011, it may not be a shocking development that the commercial real estate sector will end the year in a state of stagnation.

Winston-Salem credit union says conventional and SBA loans have helped build businesses, generate jobs.