One indication of how deeply plastic payments have influenced the U.S. retail market has been the explosive growth in gift cards at the expense of cash, checks and other forms of plastic. Not only has the National Retail Federation reported that gift cards have effectively extended the holiday shopping season...
The 45,000-member, $275 million Evolve Credit Union, formerly the El Paso Employees Federal Credit Union, has found that supporting its local community and promoting its recent name change has meant reaching out to El Paso's burgeoning art community.
Fourteen community development credit union volunteers, with collectively more than 400 years of service to their institutions and communities, have been recognized by the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions.
The prospect of credit unions building a stronger housing finance industry received some good news last week when a new CUSO, Mortgage Liquidity Solutions, announced its first sale of participations in CU-originated mortgage loans.
With a diverse mix of college students, state government employees and natives who commute from neighboring smaller towns, Tallahassee, Fla., may be ripe for a new financial services alternative.
Through a new partnership with CUSO Financial Services LP, Coastal Federal Credit Union is looking to build on its investment program thats been in place for more than a decade.
