Now garnering heightened industry attention, the $1.3 billion United Federal Credit Union of St. Joseph, Mich. moved a step closer last week to charting what it called trail blazing territory by winning NCUA approval to buy an ailing Indiana savings bank.
The Occupy protest movement may be under pressure from police on its encampments, but a Occupy group in San Francisco insisted it is serious about starting its own credit union to serve the underbanked.