Fingerprints are all that's needed now for the 300 employees of the $1.9 billion Michigan State University Federal Credit Union to access the more than 60 programs they use to do their jobs.

The numbers of properties in some part of the foreclosure process dropped by 4% nationwide in October but still remain at the level they held in October 2009, according to RealtyTrac.

Timed to Veterans Day, the $340 million Global Credit Union has launched a "Veterans Day Car Sale" with rates at 2.99%, far below the current 3.99% APR "and significantly lower than the national average of 4.36% APR at credit unions and 5.84% for banks."

The NCUA plans to issue projections for the range of costs to credit unions next year for shoring up NCUSIF and repaying part of the Treasury Department's loan to the Temporary Corporate Credit Union Stabilization Fund at its Nov. 18 meeting.