CU Direct Connect LLC, a vehicle lending platform and origination funding CUSO, recently signed on two new owners.

Consolidation creates $93 million credit union based in Bardonia, N.Y.

Development of the Modern U.S. Credit Union 1970-2010 is by historian, author and former CUNA speechwriter Paul Thompson.

Lew, former OMB director, currently is White House Chief of Staff and would succeed Timothy Geithner.