Southwest Corporate Federal Credit Union now has more than 1,000 credit union branches using its Remote Deposit Service and processed 4.4 million remote deposit items in the month of September alone.

NCUA Chairman JoAnn Johnson announced today that Jeremy Carl has been appointed associate director of external affairs.

Although NCUA's rules and disclosure regulations governing the process of converting from a credit union to bank charter draw the most attention, they are hardly the only regulatory hurdles many CUs considering making the change face, according to a leading consultant in the process.

Congress is giving a bit of recognition to the importance of financial literacy in the conference report on the Head Start for School Readiness Act (H.R. 1429), which re-authorizes the Head Start program.