OTTAWA, Canada–Your Credit Union here said it has entered into a partnership that will make it the first CU in Canada to completely power its locations with 100% green electricity and 100% green natural gas.
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WASHINGTON–New home construction unexpectedly fell in December, but for all of 2015 housing starts climbed 10.8% to 1.11 million, the strongest year for construction since 2007.
CINCINNATI—Lease credit approvals finished 2015 at 70%, according to Swapalease.com.
WASHINGTON—CUNA has sent a letter to FinCEN addressing the regulatory impact assessment of the agency’s Customer Due Diligence proposal.
WASHINGTON—Mortgage rates declined for the third consecutive week in the most Freddie Mac data.
HERNDON, Va.—NACHA—The Electronic Payments Association, has launched the NACHA Challenge, a team competition to “foster new ways to improve the ACH end-user experience by filling market gaps or removing friction points.”
ARLINGTON, Va.—The FDIC Board Thursday approved an interim final rule allowing an 18-month examination cycle for qualified community banks and thrifts with less than $1 billion in assets.
WASHINGTON—NAFCU said it is looking forward to commenting on NCUA’s overhead transfer rate (OTR) and operating fee methodologies.
FLINT, Mich.—Credit unions are among those dealing with the water crisis here after this city’s municipal water supply was found to be contaminated with lead.
LAKE FOREST, Ill.—Few credit union members have issues with their cooperative’s overdraft (OD) services—and CUs are doing a better job than banks when it comes to ODs—according to a new analysis of the CFPB’s year-end consumer complaint data.