Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has named a former banker to be that state's next CU regulator.

The Ohio Credit Union League is celebrating what it said was a record, fifth straight quarterly increase in credit union members. Roughly 10,000 Ohioans joined credit unions in the first three months of 2010, the league said.

Death and taxes kept the effort to reform the nation's financial industry regulations from passage last week as the unexpected exit of the longest serving U.S. senator confused and delayed the bill's supporters.

Dave Serlo, longtime CEO of PSCU Financial Services and the CUSO's first employee, passed away from the complications of cancer on June 25. He was 63.