Credit union efforts will have to be bigger, louder, and stronger than ever to defend the credit union tax exemption as tax reform discussions gain momentum in the U.S. Congress. In a nationwide webinar Wednesday, CUNA urged credit unions to engage their 96 million members and help them join the fight to support the credit union tax status.

The Oklahoma Credit Union Foundation Tuesday deployed its Tornado Disaster Relief Fund to assist credit union people impacted by tornadoes Sunday and Monday in Shawnee and Moore. And CUNA Mutual Group reported major damage to just one credit union.

Credit unions can detail how recent changes to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's final international remittance transfer rule could impact their business practices as they relate to such services they provide to their through a new CUNA survey.

With a wet U.S. spring causing the potential for flooding to increase, all credit unions need to make sure they know whether a property is in a flood zone before approving a mortgage, according to an article by Kriss Besch, CUNA Mutual Group product support manager.

Credit union member business lending legislation should be cheered not just because of its bipartisanship, but because it "spreads freedom" and "lifts regulatory barriers to an untapped source of capital for startups: America's credit unions," Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow for Finance and Access to Capital John Berlau wrote in a recent openmarket.org blog post.

Like credit unions in the U.S., Canadian credit unions continue to outperform banks in serving the financial needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, according to a Canadian Federation of Independent Business research report.