Lending

Small businesses with less than $10 million in annual sales are using loans more than any other size firms, according to Raddon Financial Group.

Offered online for the first time ever, CUNA Mutual Group's 2010 Discovery Conference on Nov. 3 included virtual sessions on spotting and leveraging consumer trends for growth, evolving to meet consumer expectations and more.

A lively chat session on how credit unions can identify innovation opportunities involved almost always asking members what they want and the challenge of convincing reluctant boards.

Gen Y is going to be spending $2.45 trillion annually by 2015, and credit unions that want a piece of the pie will have to look at their lending product offerings to see whether they match young people's needs and expectations.

The rate of home ownership in the U.S. remained at the lowest level it has been since the last quarter of 1999, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

A loan program that launched Aug. 1 in Iowa is starting to reap dividends for the state's small businesses.

Member business loans at credit unions in Ohio are in high demand just as mortgage loans have spiraled down.

In its latest assault on credit unions' the tax exemption, the banking lobby has seized on a suit filed by the NCUA to recover losses in a 2009 Nevada credit union failure as evidence CUs are handing out loans to nonmembers on a broad scale.