Regulatory & Compliance

State league lobbying is undergoing more revamps this spring with advocacy schedules getting altered at two more leagues–Texas and California–to advance a more focused industry message to lawmakers.

The Ohio Credit Union League, pressing its emphasis on legislative advocacy, is undertaking a revamp of its annual meeting format to include a Columbus “Hike the Hill” at the yearly conclave.

Backers of congressional efforts to delay implementation of the Federal Reserves rule regulating interchange were buoyed when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the agency wouldnt be able to release the rule by the April 21 deadline.

Five months after the NCUA filed a complaint against a business lending CUSO with the liquidated Ensign Federal Credit Union, the regulator is going after real estate developers who allegedly defaulted on a nearly $2 million loan.

If you were one of the millions who visited New York City’s Times Square between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, you would have seen on one of the biggest billboards a public service announcement benefiting credit unions.

WASHINGTON — Skeptics dominated a conference on the impact of a proposed cap on debit interchange that was held on the same day Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke informed Congress that the Fed will miss an April 21 deadline to announce the regulation's final version.