Self Help Credit Union

• Credit Unions Well Represented as Service Innovators

  May 8, 2013  | By David Morrison

  Five of the eight winners of the Center for Financial Services Innovation second round of Financial Capability Innovation Fund awards are either offshoots of credit unions, have credit unions partners or have a history of working with credit unions.

• Payday Lending Vilified Again

  March 27, 2013  | By David Morrison

  A new report from the Center for Responsible Lending has documented that payday lending at six large banks is continuing, and the reported alleged it is damaging consumers financially.

• CUNA Mutual Makes CDCU Investments

  July 16, 2012

  Three community development credit unions in California have received an interest-free, $1.25 million deposit from CUNA Mutual Group to stimulate development in their underserved areas.

• CUNA Mutual Deposits $1.25 Million in California CDCUs

  July 9, 2012  | By David Morrison

  Insurer places $1.25 million in interest-free deposits with three credit unions serving underserved areas.

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  Texas Failed Conversion Suit Grinds On

  November 13, 2011  | By David Morrison

  A lawsuit filed more than three years ago arising from a dispute over a credit union to bank charter change attempt is still dragging on through the Texas courts and promising depositions of many involved in the charter change business.

• Education Continues to Dominate NCUF Grants

  October 17, 2011  | By David Morrison

  Financial education continued to provide the predominant theme underpinning the National Credit Union Foundation's most recent round of grant making, with the NCUF continuing to fund projects that it believes strike at an enduring financial problem effecting a broad swath of American consumers.

• CDFI Fund Awards More Than $28 Million

  July 24, 2011  | By David Morrison

  Fourteen credit unions and organizations that work with credit unions received $1.5 million each from the latest round of awards from the U.S. Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. Their totals were part of more $28 million that went to 27 credit unions and supporting organizations.

• CUs Help Turn GIs Into Entrepreneurs

  January 12, 2011  | By Michelle A. Samaad

  Turning to their local credit unions, military personnel are transitioning back into civilian life by starting up businesses such as chiropractic firms, franchise restaurants and even shoe stores.

• SBA Patriot Loan Program Gets Renewal

  December 17, 2010  | By Michelle A. Samaad

  As the SBA marks the recent renewal of its Patriot Express initiative for three more years, credit unions have helped grow the program by providing loans to the military community.

• Self Help Federal Credit Union Continues to Expand on West Coast

  January 20, 2010

  The $73 million Self Help Federal Credit Union, the California-based credit union that is an affiliate of the $350 million Self Help Credit Union in North Carolina has gotten a bit bigger.