REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–Since launch of its Visa Signature credit card program less than one year ago, the $2.2-billion Provident Credit Union is reporting it has seen the number of applications it processes per month grow to 700 from 130, an increase of more than 400%.
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ATHENS, Ga.–A whitepaper discussing the future of credit union branches has been published by the Southeast Regional Credit Union Schools (SRCUS).
SYDNEY–KMPG Australia has launched a 12-week “accelerator program” that will connect 14 startup companies with credit unions and mutual banks.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—A thief allegedly robbed an office of Southeast FCU here by threating staff with a bomb.
WASHINGTON–It was just two years ago it seems every credit union in the country was caught up in the Ice Bucket Challenge, in which everyone from celebrities to politicians to CU branch managers was being doused in ice cold water as a means of raising money for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord, which is terminal.
RALEIGH, N.C.–State Employees CU has named a successor to its retiring CEO, Jim Blaine.
BAY CITY, Mich.–The Department of Justice has filed a federal lawsuit against a credit union here after it repossessed the vehicle of an enlisted man in the Army who was away on military training at the time.
WASHINGTON—The National Pawnbrokers Association is suing the Department of Defense over changes to its Military Lending Act rule, asserting, among other things, that the DoD violated the Regulatory Flexibility Act by failing to consider the costs of compliance for small businesses, NAFCU reported.
WASHINGTON–Sales of new, single-family homes leaped during June to the highest level in eight-and-one-half years.
FORT WORTH, Texas–There’s a developing twist in the market for so-called “first-time buyer homes:” It’s not just Millennials who are purchasing.