HARRISBURG, Pa. - Lee Hospital CU and HVHS CU have joined a small but growing list of state-chartered credit unions around the country that have been approved for a Trade, Industry or Professional charter by their state regulator. Lee Hospital CU, Johnstown, Pa. was approved by Pennsylvania Secretary of Banking...

SAN FRANCISCO - A study conducted by San Francisco Consumer Action, a consumer activist group, has found that some of the most common bank card practices, most often associated with risk-based pricing, in fact penalize consumers, often for simple behavior associated with being consumers. The survey found that a third...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA found "significant opportunities to increase efficiency and effectiveness" in its 2004 "comprehensive review" of the 5300 Call Report data collection, analysis, and reporting processes. NCUA will implement "innovative technological improvements beginning with the Sept. 30, 2005 reporting cycle. "These improvements will reduce costs, increase data integrity, expedite information...

WASHINGTON-Inside the beltway appears a ghost town in the month of August. This is by design: both tradition and law. There was a plan to bust down walls in the Senate, but a less expensive plan for a "manufactured weather" system was implemented instead in 1929, according to www.senate.gov. However,...