Lending

For the second consecutive year, consumers in the upper Midwest lead the nation with the highest credit scores.

If you are one of the roughly 31,000 members of the $1.7 billion Grow Financial Federal Credit Union who is a few days late paying your credit card payment, expect a call from Donna Svehlas department.

Saying that it hopes to help several million more families save money while helping the economy, the Obama administration on Oct. 24 unveiled a multifaceted plan to encourage the refinancing of mortgages.

The 550 credit unions that subscribe to loanliner.com, CUNA Mutual Groups online lending platform, allow members to manage their applications for consumer and home equity loans via the Web.

For Starbucks Chairman/ CEO Howard Schultz, waiting for Washington to come up with tangible plans to generate more jobs is not a likely course of action these days.

The NCUA will likely have much to consider as it reads through more than 280 comment letters that came in on the agencys proposal to amend the CUSO rule.