WASHINGTON— After nearly two months of gridlock, Congress moved early Friday morning to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, approving a stopgap funding package that would restore pay to thousands of TSA officers and other affected personnel while shelving, for now, the broader immigration-policy demands that had kept negotiators deadlocked, POLITICO reported.
WASHINGTON— A new Government Accountability Office report is pressing the federal government to move quickly on a coordinated anti-scam strategy, warning that at least 13 agencies are working on scam prevention and enforcement but largely doing so independently, with no government-wide plan in place.
WASHINGTON— Litigation tied to the alleged $328-million Goliath Ventures cryptocurrency fraud is widening, with two new proposed federal class actions accusing Bank of America and New Jersey-based Broad Financial of helping funnel investor and retirement money into what prosecutors say was a Ponzi scheme run by Goliath founder Christopher Alexander Delgado.
CLEARWATER, Fla.— The $599.4-million Floridacentral Credit Union has secured naming rights to the top-tier VIP hospitality space at The BayCare Sound, with the venue’s premium lounge now branded the “Floridacentral Credit Union View” as part of the waterfront entertainment destination’s Elevated Sound Experience, the CU announced.
MADISON, Wis.— March 26, 2026 —Thirty-six emerging leaders from across North America have been selected to participate in the 2026 CUES Emerge competition, CUES announced.
WASHINGTON—The Defense Credit Union Council Thursday sent a letter to both the House and Senate Budget Committees’ leadership regarding ongoing discussions around a potential “Reconciliation 2.0” package, urging lawmakers to exclude any consideration of changes to the longstanding federal tax status of credit unions.
MCLEAN, Va.--The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.38% this past week, Freddie Mac reported.
WASHINGTON – Homebuyer affordability improved in February, with the national median payment applied for by purchase applicants decreasing to $2,061 from $2,070 in January, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's Purchase Applications Payment Index (PAPI).
WASHINGTON— Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has introduced legislation that would bar immigrants in the country illegally from opening or maintaining accounts at U.S. financial institutions, including federally insured credit unions, according to Cotton’s office.
NEW YORK— A federal judge in New York has allowed key contract claims to move forward in a proposed class action accusing UBS Financial Services Inc. of steering customers’ uninvested cash into low-yield “cash sweep” accounts, while dismissing only one duplicative unjust-enrichment claim, according to Bloomberg Law.
