In what has become a relatively rare move, a Washington area credit union has sold its credit card portfolio to an agent-issuing bank.

Robert H. Harvey Jr., president/CEO of the $544 million Seattle Metropolitan Credit Union and the former chairman of WesCorp, is retiring next April.

The Essex County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey is expecting to learn more details today when it interviews an undercover sheriff's detective that shot and killed Credit Union of Atlanta President/CEO DeFarra Gaymon July 16.

Credit unions are being targeted by a 'patent troll.' Has your credit union been hit yet?