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SBA Promotes Credit Union SMB Lending

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Last month, the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) announced a collaboration that aims to promote credit unions’ participation in the SBA small business lending program, via webinars and training events aimed at broadening the credit union sector’s small business lending efforts.

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TRENDING: How Credit Unions Give Digital The Personal Touch

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Advanced technology is increasingly raising the stakes of how CUs should operate, with members coming to expect the instant payments and slick mobile interfaces that large banks and FinTechs have made standard. Credit unions (CUs) are facing an ever-shifting financial services landscape. Federally insured CUs in the U.S.

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FPC 2022 Fall Member Meeting

Faster Payments Council

The Fall Member Meeting will bring together FPC members for two days filled with presentations on the most pressing issues in faster payments, panel discussions with industry experts, roundtables on timely topics, and engaging networking opportunities. How can we look to this rapidly growing business for new use cases for instant payments?

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NEW REPORT: Giving Credit Unions Their Due Credit

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In fact, the federally backed National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) reported credit union membership grew by 4.3 Is the credit union market ready for its close-up? It’s a market that is showing clear signs of growth. million in Q2 of this year alone, with the value of loans held by credit unions now almost at $885 billion.

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Credit Unions Unite Behind Digital Banking

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Specifically, the metamorphic impact of mobile open banking and instant payments has been the first real test of the trust bond that holds CUs together. FIs are not accustomed to customers telling them which products to offer, but in the mobile instant payments world driven by millennials and Gen Zers, that’s the deal – take it or leave it.

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Regulatory Chessboard Reconfigured: New Leadership Set to Shape Financial Oversight

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While Hill has been seen as more friendly to the payments and banking industries than former Chairman Marty Gruenberg, his appointment as Acting Director is not a guarantee that he will be nominated to be the permanent director.

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Alternatives Federal Credit Union On How Credit Solutions Provide Financial Lifelines

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They also extended 20,789 mortgage payments and 539,724 consumer loans, including car and credit card loans. Any existing member or new applicant facing financial hardships due to the pandemic is similarly eligible for a personal loan of up to $3,000 with zero percent interest and no payments required for three months, he said.