CU Times compiles our exclusive data sets in combination with information received from NCUA and other federal agencies to give a clear view of lending trends involving credit unions (i.e. mortgage, auto loans, HELOCs, student loans).
WASHINGTON - The five federal financial regulatory agencies have extended the comment period on the proposed guidance on nontraditional residential mortgage products. The agencies - the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Thrift Supervision, and...
WASHINGTON - The Mortgage Bankers Association released the findings of a study it did concerning the damage to properties in New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina, and the news is definitely sobering. The association estimates the cost of repairing the 95,000 properties in the city damaged by floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - NCUA recently reminded credit unions that cash flow may be assigned as collateral for an MBL if its market value can be established and if its value is sufficient to satisfy the MBL rule's loan-to-value (LTV) requirements. The Cypress Group, LLC, a Florida-based MBL CUSO owned by...
WASHINGTON - As the SBA's 7(a) loan program enters its third year at a zero subsidy, the agency recently requested $17.5 billion to keep it going for fiscal year 2007. On Feb. 6, SBA requested a 2007 proposed budget of $624 million which authorizes $28 billion in loan and venture...
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - Kathryn Gonzales has been named the new president/CEO of Members Business Services, LLC. MBS provides commercial loan and deposit servicing for credit unions nationwide and is owned by Arrowhead Credit Union, Southern California Edison Federal Credit Union, First Financial Credit Union, USA Federal Credit Union and...
BETHALTO, Ill. - To beef up its current business member services program, Olin Community Credit Union has received approval to offer SBA 7(a) loans. The $306 million CU said the demand for business lending here allows it to serve a niche with emerging and growing small business owners. "As we...
LINTHICUM, Md. and MIRAMAR, Fla. - Member of State Employees Credit Union of Maryland will soon see an expanded business services program thanks to a new alliance. The $1.5 billion CU has become an equity partner of CU Business Capital, LLC. Through the partnership, the CU will co-design and implement...
PITTSFIELD, Mass. - Greylock Federal Credit Union recently earned the distinction of being the first credit union in the state to be designated as an SBA Preferred Lender. Under the agency's Preferred Lender program, Greylock can approve qualifying SBA loans with no additional reviews by government underwriters. In 2005, the...
WASHINGTON -House Financial Services Committee Chairman Michael Oxley (R-Ohio) and Ranking Member Barney Frank (D-Mass.) have notified Fannie Mae that the Committee intends to conduct an oversight hearing on the findings of a soon-to-be-finished report by former U.S. Sen. Warren Rudman on the internal controls, governance, accounting, capital, organization and...
TUKWILA, Wash. - Prime Alliance Solutions didn't let a little thing like the market's transition from a record-setting refinance boom to a purchase market, and a slow down in the overall market slow down its business in 2005. The company came through the year setting a new record for itself...
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