NAFCU Board Secretary Dave Gilbert, chairman of Aberdeen Proving Ground Federal Credit Union, will be leaving the NAFCU Board after serving the maximum three consecutive three year terms, but he will not be abandoning the credit union industry.

Echoing a now-growing industry theme, the new chairman of the Massachusetts Credit Union League maintained today that CUs have important lessons to be learned from Wal-Mart's "Money Center" expansion about serving the unbanked.

Based on regional conditions, two very different economic scenarios seem to be playing out this summer for credit unions involved in indirect lending, according to speakers at last week's Annual Lending Symposium sponsored by CU Direct Corp.