Sudden HMDA rule changes require reasonable transition period

Sudden HMDA rule changes require reasonable transition period

Credit unions and other financial institutions need a reasonable transition period to comply with sudden changes in the 2020 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) final rule, CUNA and other trades wrote to Federal Financial Institution [...]

Advocacy through collaboration

Advocacy through collaboration

CUNA and Leagues collaborate each year to build our advocacy agenda, and it starts with a hard look at what worked, what didn’t, and what we can do for consumers in the year ahead. [...]

CUNA announces Robert Lewis as new EVP/chief advocacy officer

CUNA announces Robert Lewis as new EVP/chief advocacy officer

CUNA announced Robert Lewis has been hired as its new executive vice president and chief advocacy officer. Lewis, the founder and president/CEO of the Van Aucker Group, has more than 20 years of legislative [...]

Advocacy in 2023 and beyond

Advocacy in 2023 and beyond

The divided government in the next Congress presents unique opportunities for credit unions because we’ve spent years building up trust on both sides of the aisle. We represent the chance for bipartisan, pro-consumer compromise [...]

Spoken-word poet, inspirational speaker Sekou Andrews to open CUNA GAC

Spoken-word poet, inspirational speaker Sekou Andrews to open CUNA GAC

Sekou Andrews, creator of Poetic Voice speaking, will provide the opening Ed (Filene) Talk at 2023 CUNA Governmental Affairs Conference (GAC). The session is sponsored by CUNA Councils.  Seamlessly blending inspirational speaking with spoken word [...]

Independence critical for supervisory committee

Independence critical for supervisory committee

While many view the board as the heart of the membership, the supervisory committee is its eyes and years, ensuring the credit union follows its policies and procedures, internal controls, and risk profile. David Reed, [...]

CUNA economics: ‘Fed signals more increases for 2023’

CUNA economics: ‘Fed signals more increases for 2023’

CUNA Senior Economist Dawit Kebede issued the following statement following the Federal Reserve meeting Wednesday: “The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC), as expected, raised the federal funds rate by 50 basis points, increasing the [...]

CFPB director testimony, crypto collapse hearings this week

CFPB director testimony, crypto collapse hearings this week

The House and Senate are in session this week, and the Senate will consider nominations and the FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act. Federal government funding is also scheduled to expire at midnight Friday, and members [...]

Gathering at the AACUL Winter Meeting

Gathering at the AACUL Winter Meeting

CUNA, American Association of Credit Union Leagues (AACUL), and Leagues gathered in Charleston, S.C., this week for AACUL’s winter meeting. It was a great gathering of credit union leaders, all focused on how [...]

Careful examination, regulation needed for big tech payments products

Careful examination, regulation needed for big tech payments products

CUNA supports the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) inquiry into the tech companies’ payments practices and strongly encourages the bureau to carefully examine and regulate these entities moving forward, it wrote in response to [...]

PODCAST: Culture, change, and the brain

PODCAST: Culture, change, and the brain

Bloomberg listed “behavioral scientist” as the top job of this decade because it’s so important to understanding human behavior as it relates to our daily habits, 99% of which are unconscious. The discipline combines [...]