The NCUA's Inspector General's office will investigate whether the NCUA has proper controls in place to safeguard agency hardware such as laptops and hard drives from loss or theft.

Despite strong profits and low delinquencies, credit unions in general aren't warming to private student lending.

It is not easy to form a new credit union but a group of Mainers believe they have the recipe to potentially charter the first new one in the state in a quarter century.

Cooperatives in California, Florida, Michigan, and Utah go live, bringing the total number of credit unions to 15.