WASHINGTON–Three members of the U.S. Army National Guard have been arrested and charged with a scheme to use bitcoin to purchase stolen credit card numbers in order to make fraudulent purchases from a number of military bases.
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IRVINE, Calif.—During April median investment home prices, which include financed and non-financed properties, soared 12.5% to $203,000, while owner-occupied median home prices rose 5.3% to $251,900, according to new data released by HomeUnion.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Researchers in the United Kingdom are working on a new form of mobile banking identity verification that analyzes each user's individual body language. The program assesses how people hold, type or swipe their mobile devices in order to authorize transactions.
WASHINGTON—NAFCU lauded House leadership, including House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA), for their support of HR 1188, the “Credit Union Small Business Jobs Creation Act.”
SAN FRANCISCO–A start-up that helps consumers to pay off high-interest credit cards is encountering some struggles as it seeks to get off the ground.
COSTA MESA, Calif.—Seventy-one percent of this year's college graduates did not receive credit or debt management classes, even though 69% of them will have to pay back student loans after graduation, according to a new report.
HOUSTON–First Service Credit Union has purchased a six-story building in the West Houston Energy Corridor as its new headquarters.
ARLINGTON, Va.—NAFCU is backing a rule allowing corporate credit unions to have a correspondent relationship with the Central Liquidity Facility.
NEW BRITAIN, Conn.–Matthew Yussman, the CFO at Achieve Federal Credit Union here who was confronted by armed gunmen at his home as part of a robbery attempt, and who would be a suspect in the case for a year afterward until the two robbers were caught, had his story featured by the Hartford Courant.
SASKATOON, Sask.–Growing urbanization combined with rising usage of mobile banking led Affinity Credit Union here to close 12 branches during 2015.