As credit unions brace for a turnaround in new auto lending activity this year, more signs are in the air that vehicles sales are up.

Consumers worldwide worry about card fraud while many of them still carry PINs with them, according to a recent survey.

Gary Soukenik, president/CEO of Seven Seventeen Credit Union, added his voice Monday to the chorus of credit union CEOs eager to become enthusiastic advocates for the industry on the newly formed Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve.

CUNA, NAFCU and several bank groups are asking a federal judge if they can file a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of a bank that is challenging the constitutionality of the law, giving the Federal Reserve the power to regulate interchange.