CUNA Senior Economist Dawit Kebede issued the following statement in response to the Labor Department’s April Consumer Price Index (CPI) Report: “In April, the year-over-year headline inflation decreased slightly from 5% in March to [...]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) this month extended the flagship project of its Venezuela Regional Response Program through May 2026, awarding $14 million to World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) to continue [...]
Chih Wei Chen developed his work ethic helping out in his family’s Chinese restaurants. His family immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan when Chen was 12 years old in pursuit of the American [...]
The House and Senate are both in Washington, D.C., this week, with the House expected to consider immigration and fraud legislation, and the Senate to resume consideration of nominees. CUNA will be engaged with [...]
Knowing what is going on in your field is important. It helps you drive results, steer business decisions, grow professionally and better adapt to industry changes. In fact, millions of people in the U.S. [...]
Credit union loans outstanding increased 0.5% in February, compared to a 0.6% increase in January 2022, and a 1.0% increase in February 2022, according to CUNA's latest Monthly Credit Union Estimates. Home [...]
The latest Weekly Wrap-up introduces viewers to everything happening at CUNA News. There was a lot going on in the first week of May. Watch the full video to learn how a credit union was [...]
This week we filed comments with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on its proposed rule that would cap credit card late fees. We believe this proposal is a serious deviation from the bureau’s [...]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) credit card late fee proposed rule is a “gross deviation from the Bureau’s standards for issuing policies grounded in sound and relevant data,” CUNA wrote Wednesday. The [...]
The National Credit Union Foundation (the Foundation) has opened nominations for the 2024 Herb Wegner Memorial Awards. The awards are the credit union movement’s highest national honors and recognize outstanding leaders, programs, and organizations [...]
CUNA joined other financial services trade organizations Monday in making a second request that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) extend the deadline for its proposed rule on credit card late fees. The organizations previously [...]
CUNA announced the appointment of Alex Catanese as its newest director of advocacy. Catanese will help manage the association’s relationships with Democrats on a variety of key advocacy issues in his role at CUNA. [...]
Credit Union Magazine announced the 2023 Credit Union Hero of the Year: Amanda Merz, community impact manager at $4.6 billion asset SAFE Credit Union in Folsom, Calif. Merz has deep ties to the nonprofit [...]
CUNA has serious reservations about the conclusion of a Government Accountability Office study relating to the regulation of federal depository institutions, it wrote to the GAO. The study, “High-Risk Series Efforts Made to Achieve Progress [...]
Revisit the 2023 CUNA HR and Organizational Development Council Conference in the latest episode of the Weekly Wrap-up. What were credit union professionals talking about this week when they met in San Diego? CUNA News [...]
