A market research group with a specialty in tracking card data said consumers are putting more on their credit cards now than at any time after the start of the economic downturn.

For the $180 million Gateway Metro Federal Credit Union of St. Louis, the path to reaching the youth market leads to more mergers of small, faith-based CUs, its president/CEO, David Barton, said last week.

A day after new regulations from the new CARD act went into effect, credit unions are getting media support on getting exemption from Federal Reserve interchange rate rules.

The Credit Union Association of New York's Young Professionals Commission recently held its first Crash meet-up in Albany at Professor Java's Coffee Sanctuary.