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Byline: Lisa Freeman Last week I did something I hadn't done in years: I ordered more checks. We ran out of checks primarily because we have been doing some renovations [...]

Byline: Lisa Freeman Marine CU, La Crosse, Wis., is buying five branches from Milwaukee-based Bank Mutual. In a joint release, the $690 million credit union and $2.6 billion bank said [...]

Cable News Network Financial Reporter and Former Model Willow Bay talks about work on the television program 'Moneyline News Hour' and her life with her husband TV Executive Bob Iger.

Byline: Lisa Freeman I live in a battleground state. Not just any battleground state - THE battleground state: Florida. And not just anywhere in Florida - the epicenter of the [...]

Byline: Lisa Freeman Two things happened to me recently that had never happened before. The first was that I almost missed a flight even though I was already inside the [...]

Byline: Lisa Freeman Depending on whom you ask, the war that took place in the U.S. from 1861 to 1865 might be called the Civil War or 'The War of [...]

Byline: Lisa Freeman NCUA is channeling the old saw, 'it's better to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission,' with its decision to finalize its controversial risk-based capital rule [...]

Byline: Lisa Freeman I hate cliches, but sometimes the silence really is deafening. I worked at a small daily newspaper in Ohio right after I got out of college. While [...]

Byline: Lisa Freeman It's funny how conventional wisdom isn't always that wise. For example, conventional wisdom would suggest that someone who is already wallowing in many thousands of dollars in [...]

Byline: Lisa Freeman After what may have appeared to be an inauspicious start with its new CEO, Cherokee Strip CU has seen tremendous growth. Just two days after Rick Menton [...]

Byline: Lisa Freeman In this issue, Credit Union Journal continues its ongoing series on how the credit union movement has evolved. The first article in the series looked at the [...]

Byline: Lisa Freeman ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA announced the agency will issue its revised proposed rule on risk-based capital at its Jan. 15 board meeting. 'During the six months since the comment [...]

Byline: Lisa Freeman Even weeks after Apple Pay went live, it continues to make headlines, and not just in financial news outlets. Apple has long been a media darling, so [...]

Byline: Lisa Freeman RICHMOND, Texas-The National Association of CUSOs said it was cautiously optimistic about the revised CUSO rule NCUA handed down at its November meeting but continues to be [...]

Byline: Lisa Freeman ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Gigi Hyland's departure from the NCUA board could raise the specter of gridlock should the remaining two members-one Democrat and one Republican-not agree on issues going [...]

Byline: Lisa Freeman, Managing Editor FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-Credit unions need to get over their reluctance to segment accounts if they want to survive. That was the take-away message from Thomas [...]

Byline: Lisa Freeman WASHINGTON-The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to pay increased attention to financial literacy issues among members of the military in 2012, and that could mean new compliance [...]

Byline: Ed Roberts & Lisa Freeman, Staff WASHINGTON-CUNA President Dan Mica announced last week he will retire as head of the industry's largest trade group in January 2011. Mica, 65, [...]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.-Though Debbie Matz hasn't officially been confirmed as the next NCUA chair, the transition talks have already begun. Current NCUA Chair Michael Fryzel said he had lunch with [...]

Byline: Lisa Freeman, Managing Editor ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The first step on the potential road to supplemental capital: some regulatory soul searching at NCUA. 'We need to look within NCUA and have [...]

Byline: Lisa Freeman, Managing Editor WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.-No matter the fate or final form of the federal financial bailout plan, it will affect how a CU needs to be [...]

WASHINGTON -- Even as other financial institutions are running away from student lending, credit unions are finding ways to dive right in, with several alternatives to creating a student loan [...]

CARLISLE, Penn. -- CUs that want the benefits of offering student loans without the potential downside of creating their own program have a variety of alternatives available to them. Lehman [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. -- One credit union that has come to the rescue of a state student lending program has found a way to make up for other lenders decisions to [...]

LOS ANGELES -- With the federal student lending program in flux and the rising cost of tuition, private student lending has become a necessary bridge to studentsand a lucrative opportunity [...]

MADISON, Wis. -- What do indirect auto lending and the federal student loan program have in common? A similar challenge: finding a way to turn those one-trick-pony members into fully [...]

MADISON, Wis. -- Recent changes to the federal student loan program has driven away a lot of the players in the student loan market, creating a void in the market [...]

SEATTLE -- In a highly imaginative weekly online ad series featuring movie star and Washington native Carl Weatherswho played Apollo Creed in the Rocky movie franchiseviewers are told Change is [...]

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Though regulatory accounting changes will slow the merger train down, a panel of experts on combining credit unions suggested the continued consolidation in the movement is inevitable. [...]

NEW YORK -- With membership growth so flat that we almost have shrinking numbers of members, the CUNA Membership Growth Task Force offered up its initial findings and recommendations to [...]

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Does your credit union have a fee income committee? It should, according to several analysts, who offered that proposal and others for boosting non-interest income. The analysts [...]

FLINT, Mich. -- Dort FCU is going head-to-head with online rivals such as ING with a new high-yield, self-service online account that has one very important thing the INGs dont: [...]

WALL STREET -- Fitch Ratings put two more corporate CUs, Southwest Corporate FCU and Constitution State FCU, on its Negative Watch because of growing losses in the value of their [...]

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Great leadership can be distilled down to seven key elements, and one leader implored credit unions never to settle for a leader with anything less than [...]

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Credit unions may not have made the mortgage mess, but theyre part of the clean-up crew, and that is giving them new power when dealing with [...]

MERRIFIELD, Va. -- Why did the largest credit union on the face of the earth seek an even larger field of membership? Because, said Navy FCU in explaining its FOM [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. -- FORUM CU has put its money where its members mouths are. The billion-dollar Indianapolis-based credit union decided no one could tell the credit unions story better than [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Theres been a tremendous power shift and the more quickly credit unions can adapt to that shift, the better off they will be. We have moved from [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. -- With credit unions disappearing at a rate of one a day, its high time the industry put the co-op back into the cooperative movement, according to one [...]

ST. LOUIS -- The Remote Teller System (RTS) has been around for years, and with it has been the debate over whether RTS pushes members away or lures them in. [...]

TEMPE, Ariz. -- The proposed merger of Northwest Airlines and Delta and the multiple bankruptcy filings by four smaller airlines have shaken things upbut not shaken the faithamong credit unions [...]

DULUTH, Ga. -- The good news: some credit unions have grown anywhere from 10% to 30% in asset size over the last two months. The bad news: what to do [...]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A state court ruling last week that essentially enforces the bylaws of a credit union that unsuccessfully tried to convert to a bank wont stop NCUA from [...]

WASHINGTON -- Its a great pleasure to be here today, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told a standing-room-only crowd at CUNAs GAC. But I have to be honest, [...]

ODESSA, Texas -- A state court has allowed First Basin CU to schedule depositions for representatives of several out-of-state credit unions whom FBCU says financed efforts to derail the credit [...]

MADISON, Wis. -- It may be a cooperative movement, but getting credit unions behind the same cause is often more akin to herding cats. Few people know that better than [...]

MIRAMAR, Fla. -- Even a $2-billion credit union sometimes has to think small. Almost every large employer either already has a credit union or isnt interested in offering credit union [...]

WASHINGTON -- Credit union economists are still loathe to use the dreaded R word, but they are ready with advice on just what it could mean for CUs if the [...]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Credit unions havent come a long way, baby. With the U.S. marking Martin Luther King Day this week, the Credit Union Journal has revisited an [...]