The Pennsylvania Credit Union Association today launched a video-messaging vehicle to communicate more readily with members on topical issues of the day.

The Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee today is beginning its regularly scheduled two-day meeting to assess the state of the economy and decide whether to adjust interest rates.

Those small businesses that did not have a lien, judgment, collection filing, bankruptcy or severe payment delinquencies prior to the start of the economic downturn in 2007 are doing better than other firms.

Credit unions had $235.9 billion in outstanding consumer credit in June, up from $235.6 billion in May, according to data released late Friday by the Federal Reserve.