Lending

The stark words jumped off the page of the report. "Consumer inflation rose 0.5% in December, the highest monthly gain since June 2009," according to an advisory prepared by Brian Turner of Southwest Corporate Investment Services in Plano, Texas.

By increasing members' loyalty, credit unions may discover opportunities that could improve their lending volume.

With an eye on building green loan market share, Filene Research Institute and a Virginia consulting firm teamed up this week to quantify credit union practices based on a new survey tool distributed to CUs charting profit experience.

CU Members Mortgage, a lending mortgage vendor serving CUs, is touting its 2010 growth as bucking a very poor economic year that also carried a greater regulatory burden than usual.

CUNA Mutual is the newest partner in CU Solutions Group's Invest in America program, which will offer discounts on home and auto insurance for credit union members.

Grow Financial Federal Credit Union in Tampa Bay, Fla., is expanding its relationship with Wolters Kluwer Financial Services by joining the firm's AppOne Platform.