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Lending giants U.S. Bank and JPMorgan Chase recently announced they had eliminated and reduced their private student lending programs, respectively. JPMorgan Chase will only make private student loans for existing customers.

In one corner there is Plano, Texas-based Catalyst Corporate. In the other there is Dallas-based IP Navigation, a firm that specializes in patent monetization. There also was a letter, sent by IP Nav to Catalyst. And then Catalyst responded with a suit filed in the US District Court in the...

Now you have it, now you do not. Puzzlement has percolated on the part of some in the industry over the insistence by the NCUA that indemnification and coverage of legal fees incurred by the onetime WesCorp officers it is suing are not owed. That is, the defendants (now down...

For financial advisers, the traditional methods used to help members when it comes to their long-term planning needs may be going the way of the dodo bird.

As the payment industry begins to move toward replacing magnetic stripe cards with cards that use embedded smart chips, credit unions and other card issuers will have to eventually decide whether they will issue cards that use personal identification numbers or signatures to validate transactions.

The $1.45 billion North Carolina corporate more than doubled its earnings projections for 2011, ending the year $5.2 million in the black.