News

SEATTLE -- The CU Housing Roundtable has sent a proposal to the NCUA, asking to make $1 billion in central liquidity facility funds available to natural person credit unions to assist with problem real estate loans.

ST. LOUIS -- Missouri credit unions are moving forward with revised plans to build two homes next year for injured Iraqi war veterans in an offshoot of CUNA's similar venture at the presidential party conventions last summer.

WASHINGTON -- CUNA's Governmental Affairs Conference, to be held Feb. 22-26 at the Washington Convention Center here, is already bringing a host of celebrities to its agenda.

WASHINGTON -- Given their structures, credit unions and cooperatives could have averted the current economic crisis, said Paul Hazen, president/CEO of the National Cooperative Business Association.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Credit unions participating in Credit Union 24 will receive preferred pricing from Cardtronics should the CU want to brand a Cardtronics ATM with its own logo and screens.

PITTSBURGH -- There has been new evidence that credit unions here and in Georgia were latching on to new growth opportunities from the continuing turmoil and consolidation impacting commercial banks.