The report for February home sales has been released and the news is not good. Existing home sales across the country declined 7.1 percent or seasonally adjusted rate of 5.08 million homes. This is less than the 5.47 million that were sold in...
Vining Sparks will present a webinar exclusively for credit unions on March 31 at 11 a.m. EDT/ 10 a.m. CDT . This is the first in the 2016 webinar series. Credit unions have relied on Vining Sparks’ proprietary Performance Profile for more...
Late Friday afternoon CUNA announced that its membership has overwhelmingly approved modernizing the trade association’s bylaws. Ninety percent of the membership that voted approved the bylaws; which makes it the most significant changes to...
Millennials have grown up when technology has made its greatest strides. Many millennials remember a time before cell phones became mainstream, but are the same people who couldn’t live without them today. Unlike their Gen X or Baby Boomer parents...
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) said he has not decided when — or even if – the panel will consider the nomination of NCUA Board Member J. Mark McWatters to the Export-Import Bank board of directors. Even though Senate...
The second of three webinars explaining how the new LEVERAGE Rewards program works is Thursday, March 17, at 3 p.m. ET/2 p.m. CT. If you are looking for a new way to build loyalty with your members, LEVERAGE‘s rewards program is different than...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will be in front of the House Financial Services Committee today for the “Semi Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.” CUNA sent a 41 page letter to the committee...
The “Dear Colleague” letter from Congress to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been sent. The Alabama and Florida delegation was a major part of the 329 members of the House that signed the letter. The letter asks the...
The political blog, Florida Politics, recently posted a story on its takeaways from the 2016 Florida Legislative Session. It’s basically a look at the winners and losers from the session. Credit unions were given a big shout out as a winner...
The way that credit unions offer member business loans (MBL) will be changing later this year. The NCUA has published its MBL rule in the Federal register making it not only official but changing some requirements. One of the major pieces of the...