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The Community Financial Services Association, the trade association that represents just over half of payday lending outlets in the country, has moved to define the payday lending industry before its critics get to define it further.

The $27 billion WesCorp has created the WesCorp Credit Union Employees PAC to enhance and formalize its commitment to supporting the political plight of the credit union industry.

With the myriad of charter evolutions underway in the movement, Providence Health System Federal Credit Union is among those that have found a way to grow its membership by focusing on a niche industry ripe with many untapped layers.

Foreclosure numbers for 2006 are in and they paint a worrisome picture. More than 1.2 million foreclosure filings were reported nationwide in 2006, a 42% leap from the previous year, according to the 2006 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released by RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure properties. That's a rate...

SAN DIMAS, Calif. - What do coffee, wine, newspapers, bottle caps and auto loans have in common? Plenty, when they are produced by cooperatives. The values and principles that cooperatives share, and how they affect strategic decision making, is the basis of a Master's program offered at Saint Mary's University...

SAFE Credit Union has been doing indirect lending for 14 years and like many credit union indirect lenders, it realized early on that members that are signed up at the local auto dealer are not typical members.