The $184 million First Financial Federal Credit Union in Wall, N.J., hired Thomas Coleman as lending manager at its corporate headquarters. Coleman has more than 20 years of consumer loan underwriting experience, including as vice president of Customers Bank in Langhorne, Pa., and at Credit Union of New Jersey in...

Lending programs and grants allow credit unions to fight food deserts and attract new business.

Why don't federal agencies understand they exist to serve the public, not the other way around?

FHFA Director Mel Watt said his agency will maintain conforming loan limits and relax underwriting requirements.