SEATTLE–Twenty-seven percent of homebuyers believe the 2016 presidential election will have a negative effect on the housing market, according to a survey of 975 homebuyers conducted in May by Redfin.
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WASHINGTON—The fact that U.S. households paid down roughly $26.8 billion in credit card debt during the first quarter of 2016 is NOT good news for the overall consumer balance sheet, according to CardHub.
BENTONVILLE, Ark.—Growth of the self-checkout stations inside retail stores is providing crooks with even more avenues for card skimming.
WASHINGTON—While NCUA recently reported that costs for its recent national training program came in under budget and below the price tag for the same event in 2014, one analyst asserts that costs per employee attending actually went up.
MADISON, Wis.–A new report from the Filene Research Institute, Designing Credit Union Culture for High Performance, describes the key components of organizational culture, and details opportunities for credit unions to foster a high-performance culture using the case of Svenska Handelsbanken—a Swedish bank whose business model focuses on holistic, branch-centric service delivery.
SAN FRANCISCO–Visa has launched the Digital Commerce App, an issuer-branded mobile commerce solution the company said enables financial institutions to offer their own mobile app to customers/members with valuable card management services – ultimately expanding and strengthening their Visa credit, debit and prepaid card offerings.
BROOKFIELD, Wis.—Fiserv announced that Me/CU, based in Oklahoma City, Okla., has selected the Portico account processing platform and an integrated suite of digital banking, payments and lending solutions from Fiserv.
NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio-DoverPhila Federal Credit Union has partnered with GameStop and Park Place Teen Center here to sponsor and host a video game tournament.
WASHINGTON – CUNA has sent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee in support of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2017.
PLEASANTON, Calif.–Patelco Credit Union has chosen Insuritas to provide members with an insurance agency solution.