Compliance

LEAD STORY Take these steps to get more from your marketing budget, advises Anne Legg, vice president of marketing for $168 million asset Cabrillo Credit Union, San Diego, and chair of the CUNA Mar-keting & Business Development Council Executive Committee: Evaluate processes. Map out your marketing activities and “sculpt” away... READ MORE

John Magill The movement’s political force has put CUNA at the bargaining table with legislators. Influence is to Congress what the dollar is to the economy. Both allow the holder to obtain a desired product. In the economy, the dollar gives you purchasing power. In Congress, influence gives you power,... READ MORE

Karen Saul With pay discrimination, each paycheck is a new filing opportunity. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, the first legislation President Obama signed into law, has a retroactive effective date of May 28, 2007. It applies to all claims of discriminatory compensation pending on or after that... READ MORE

Mike Schenk CUs could lend an additional $10 billion to the nation’s small businesses. Small businesses are noticing the credit union difference. While other lenders have tightened or curtailed business lending, credit unions have increased it. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. statistics show banking industry business loans increased only 8% in... READ MORE

Mary Dunn The final costs to CUs are unknown at this time. Most agree the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board needed to act in January to assist the corporate credit unions and that it had few options. Concerned about capital and liquidity in these institutions that also might affect... READ MORE

Pam Finch NCUA’s corporate CU proposal liberates movement leaders to talk structure. When news of the National Credit Union Administration’s (NCUA) corporate stabilization plan broke, you almost could see the smoke rising from the network server housing the CUNA CFO Council e-mail list activity. The opinions and emotions of the... READ MORE

Kathleen Thompson Take note of IRS Form 990’s new Part VI on nonprofit governance. A new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requirement has focused attention on credit unions’ need for conflict of interest policies and annual disclosure processes for board members and senior staff to report possible conflicts. Review a sample... READ MORE

CUNA President/CEO Dan Mica to GAC attendees: 'Our work as your trade association is focused on finding other alternatives...and mitigating the cost to CUs.'

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Michael McLain NCUA changes prohibit certain credit card practices for FCUs. The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), Office of Thrift Supervision, and Federal Reserve Board issued final rules in December 2008 to better protect credit card users. The rules prohibit certain unfair and deceptive acts or practices, and improve consumer... READ MORE

LEAD STORY When gasoline prices surpassed $4 per gallon last summer, siphoning consumers’ discretionary income, some members of Holy Rosary Credit Union, Rochester, N.H., faced the prospect of borrowing money to pay home heating expenses when winter came. That didn’t sit well with Brian Hughes, president/CEO of the $135 million... READ MORE

It is almost a holiday weekend. I know that all of you compliance folks are tired from the CFPB’s onslaught of final and proposed rules. You have been going full speed since January. And, the CFPB is going to be issuing a lot more “stuff” in June. So, I thought I would take a minute to [...]

If you remember last summer, NCUA’s Office of Consumer Protection notified over 1000 federal credit unions across the country of their eligibility for low income designation.  NCUA’s initiative was in part due to President Obama’s relief and recovery package to help drought stricken states across the country.   Many of you accepted the designation; however, do [...]

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase only qualified mortgages as of January 10, 2014. For those of us that follow the secondary mortgage market and compliance regulations, this shouldn’t be much of a surprise.   The new CFPB rule allows for loans to be underwritten as either [...]