CUNA Mascot Madness: Voting opens for East Region

CUNA Mascot Madness: Voting opens for East Region

Let's get to the first round of voting for the CUNA Mascot Madness bracket. We begin the three-week tournament with the East Region, which features Sammie the Sea Otter of $160 billion asset Navy Federal [...]

CUNA launches page with bank collapse response resources

CUNA launches page with bank collapse response resources

CUNA launched a webpage to support and provide resources for member credit unions looking to highlight credit unions’ safety and soundness in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Credit union deposits are safe, [...]

Digital credit union targets recent college graduates

Digital credit union targets recent college graduates

MSU Federal Credit Union knows college students. For 85 years, the $6.9 billion asset credit union in East Lansing, Mich., has served Michigan State University students, adapting as consumer behavior changed, the internet grew, [...]

EIP introduces guide for refugee, migrant financial inclusion

EIP introduces guide for refugee, migrant financial inclusion

The U.S. Agency for International Development/World Council of Credit Unions’ (WOCCU) Economic Inclusion Project introduced to more than 100 representatives of Peru’s financial sector a formal guide that will help them identify [...]

Final week to vote for 2023 #CUHero of the Year

Final week to vote for 2023 #CUHero of the Year

Vote now for Credit Union Magazine's 2023 Credit Union Hero of the Year. The four finalists are: Amanda Merz, community impact manager at $4.6 billion asset SAFE Credit Union, Folsom, Calif. Michael Ray, vice [...]

CUNA makes operational and policy recommendations for CDFI Fund

CUNA makes operational and policy recommendations for CDFI Fund

CUNA wrote House Ways and Means Committee leadership with several recommendations for the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund. The committee conducted a hearing Thursday on the administration’s FY24 budget proposal. “Credit [...]

VIDEO: Weekly Wrap-up March 6-10

VIDEO: Weekly Wrap-up March 6-10

Watch the latest CUNA News Weekly Wrap-up to see where you can find every story from the 2023 CUNA Governmental Affairs Conference (GAC). You'll also get a look at our Women's History Month coverage, which [...]

Awareness continues to reach consumers

Awareness continues to reach consumers

Credit Union Awareness continues to be a pillar of our Financial Well-being for All work and connected more than 10,000 consumers with a participating credit union in the final months of 2022 alone. We [...]

Crypto regulation needed, CUs need authority to engage

Crypto regulation needed, CUs need authority to engage

Credit unions support appropriate oversight and regulation of the digital assets marketplace and must have the authority to participate, CUNA wrote to the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Inclusion this [...]

Vote for your favorite credit union mascot

Vote for your favorite credit union mascot

Which credit union mascot is the best? CUNA News staff have compiled 16 of the goofiest, most creative, intriguing credit union mascots across the U.S. Now, over the next month, readers can trim that [...]

International CU advocacy makes positive impact in Ukraine

International CU advocacy makes positive impact in Ukraine

World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) International Advocacy and its partners outlined how advocacy efforts by U.S. credit unions have resulted in meaningful changes for credit unions and their members in wartime Ukraine, and [...]