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The head of Georgia Credit Union Affiliates weighed in on the growing national concern over examiner shortages citing frustrations over mandated cutbacks and funding inequities.

WASHINGTON -- If credit unions hope to kill the provisions to further regulate interchange fees in the financial regulation bill they will have to do it with the administration sitting on the sidelines.

It's a road Alliant Credit Union and Continental Federal Credit Union have been down before, only this time, there may be a clear destination in sight.

One of Florida's ailing credit unions, the $140 million Bay Gulf CU of Tampa, insisted it is on a path to financial recovery.

Expanding its Michigan footprint, the $1.9 billion Lake Michigan Credit Union of Grand Rapids is merging the troubled $62 million Citizens CU of Kalamazoo giving the CU an entry into the Kalamazoo market.

The National Credit Union Foundation has chosen longtime credit union leader Wendell Sebastian as its next executive director.

CUNA and state leagues said last week their massive lobbying effort to oppose the Durbin interchange amendment triggered an estimated 35,000 letters and e-mail messages to U.S. senators, but that was apparently dwarfed by retailers' counter campaign.

The NCUA Board may vote in June on whether to separate corporate CU assessments from those that cover natural person credit union losses, Chairman Debbie Matz told Wisconsin Credit Union League members.