NCUA Associate General Counsel Sheila Albin told a firm that works on credit union to mutual savings bank conversions that, generally speaking, if a member has provided the credit union an e-mail address, it "must assume the member has consented to receive conversion-related member-to-member communications electronically from the credit union."

TNB Card Services, the card portfolio purchasing and processing arm of credit union-owned Town North Bank has renovated its card rewards program to make it more accessible and better known to credit unions.

Analysis by Information Strategies Inc. reveals that Health Savings Accounts are approaching 5% of all health care insurance users on a nationwide basis.

Wal-Mart's planned expansion of 1,000 "Money Centers" across the U.S. deserves more than careful scrutiny from credit unions because of its implications on the underbanked, according to the head of the New York State Credit Union League.