Lending

Call it a sign of the times that when consumer card advocate Bill Hardekopf of LowCards.com praised two cards' debit rewards programs, they were not cards issued by financial institutions.

The Wisconsin Credit Union League is touting a report from National Credit Union Foundation's Real Solutions program about the amount of money the state's credit unions saved their members in 2010.

The changing requirements for mortgage issuing have led CU Members Mortgage, one of the leading mortgage issuing firms with credit union partners, to restructure its operations.

In what was almost a throw-away line in the Feb. 16 Editors Column, it was suggested that the agent credit card portfolio at NIH Federal Credit Unions "illustrates the credit union difference and should make credit unions think long and hard about what could happen when selling their credit card...

ASI Federal Credit Union became a low-income credit union before the low-income credit union designation, or even the NCUA, existed.

The new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection–which will be the driving force behind the writing and enforcement of a myriad of consumer regulations–isn’t scheduled to begin operating until July.