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ALEXANDRIA, VA (March 18, 2015) — The video recording of the February 2015 open meeting of the National Credit Union Administration Board is now available on the agency’s website.

Archived videos of past Board meetings may be viewed here, and each video remains on the site for one year. The February open Board meeting’s agenda included three items:

• A proposed rule and policy statement to provide special consideration for regulatory relief in future rulemakings to more than three-quarters of federally insured credit unions by raising the asset ceiling of a “small entity” to $100 million from the current $50 million.
• A request from Taunton Federal Credit Union of Taunton, Massachusetts, to expand its community charter.
• A briefing on the performance of the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which showed positive fourth-quarter results.

NCUA posts these videos as part of the agency’s ongoing efforts to provide transparency and to allow those unable to attend Board meetings the opportunity to become better informed. An interval between the meeting and posting is necessary for the videos to comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act for the hearing and visually impaired.

NCUA now offers a livestream of open Board meetings, at no charge to viewers. People interested in watching the March 19 open Board meeting live should register online here, and participants will use this same link to log into the livestream. Once they have registered, participants will be given a link they can use to test their systems. Participants with technical questions about accessing the livestream may email audience.support@on24.com. NCUA will provide a new registration link for each subsequent Board meeting.

The Board Actions page of NCUA’s website has more information, including Board agendas, which are posted at least one week in advance of each open meeting, copies of Board Action Bulletins, which summarize the meetings, copies of Board memorandums and other documents.

NCUA is the independent federal agency created by the U.S. Congress to regulate, charter and supervise federal credit unions. With the backing of the full faith and credit of the United States, NCUA operates and manages the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, insuring the deposits of more than 99 million account holders in all federal credit unions and the overwhelming majority of state-chartered credit unions. At MyCreditUnion.gov and Pocket Cents, NCUA also educates the public on consumer protection and financial literacy issues.