Credit unions are well-positioned to remove barriers to credit faced by small and minority-owned businesses, CUNA wrote to a House Financial Services Subcommittee Thursday. “Despite field of membership restrictions, credit unions advance financial inclusion and [...]
NAFCU witness Brian Ducharme yesterday urged members of a House Financial Services subcommittee to support legislation, which is now scheduled for mark-up next week, to stop the NCUA's risk-based capital rule (RBC) from taking effect [...]
NAFCU witness Debra Schwartz, NAFCU Board treasurer and president and CEO of Mission Federal Credit Union (San Diego, Calif.), will give the credit union perspective on data security and the need for a national standard [...]
NAFCU witness Rick Stafford, president and CEO of Tower Federal Credit Union (Laurel, Md.), yesterday told members of a House Financial Services subcommittee that providing loans to borrowers in rural areas and small communities is "[...]
NAFCU President and CEO Dan Berger on Friday wrote House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Ann Wagner, R-Mo., to correct the "mistruths and half-truths" asserted to the lawmaker last week by the Independent Community [...]
America’s credit unions were fully represented at a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing Wednesday, as Rick Nichols, president/CEO of River Region CU, Jefferson City, Mo., testified on behalf of the Heartland Credit Union [...]
NAFCU's Brad Thaler cited five tenets of a healthy and appropriate regulatory environment for credit unions in a letter Tuesday to the leaders of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, [...]
NAFCU this week will monitor a hearing on legislation offering regulatory relief to community financial institutions and another featuring testimony by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on monetary policy. The association on Wednesday heads to [...]
CUNA urged a House subcommittee Tuesday to consider the impact of regulatory burden when examining the availability of credit for consumers and small businesses. CUNA wrote to leadership of the House Financial Services subcommittee on [...]
NAFCU is on Capitol Hill and at regulatory agencies this week, advocating for credit unions' best interests at the federal level and working in pursuit of a more positive regulatory environment for the industry. Tomorrow, [...]
The Senate and House are both in session this week, and while most of their schedules will consist of non-financial services legislation in the House and nominations in the Senate, CUNA will be closely monitoring [...]
NAFCU will be monitoring closely the Senate’s return this week as well as two House subcommittee hearings on flood insurance and the president’s State of the Union address tomorrow. The House Financial Services [...]
As the first session of the 114th Congress enters its final week, CUNA Chief Advocacy Officer Ryan Donovan highlighted some of his trade association’s successes over the last year, while adding that much work [...]
NAFCU President and CEO Dan Berger asked NCUA to release an outline of regulatory changes it is considering on supplemental capital before a formal rulemaking is released. A proposed rulemaking is expected before year-end, NCUA [...]
Despite more than 250 members of the U.S. Congress urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to provide a formal hold-harmless period for its new mortgage rule, no such grace period has been put [...]
