Credit Union Conversion News

Articles on current conversions, past conversions and the National Center for Member Trust.

• "On Site Coverage: US Conversion Policy Puzzles World CU Leaders", Credit Union Times, 7/16/08.
• "New Report Finds 33% of CUs Surveyed Plan Change To Bank Charters", Credit Union Times, 1/30/08.
• "Lafayette Lost First Conversion Ballot; Recount Was Never In Play", Credit Union Times, 10/17/07.
• "Another Former Credit Union Headed to Capital Markets; Irony Galore Considering CEO's Recent Testimony", Credit Union Times, 10/03/07.
• "Speculators Charged With Stalking CU Conversion Candidates", Credit Union Journal, 10/1/07.
• "Solution Eyed For IPO Scheming", Credit Union Journal, 10/1/07.
• "SEC Verifies Long-Held Fears of Investors Joining CUs in Hopes of Conversion Riches", Credit Union Times, 5/30/07.
• "A Few Insiders Share the Wealth from CU Conversions", Credit Union Journal, 12/22/06.
• "Filene Report Argues NCUA Should Allow CUs to Convert Directly To Stock Banks; Receiving a Per Member Share of CU Only Way to Protect Member Interests", Credit Union Times, 6/14/06.
• "Should the Earnings of Credit Unions That Convert to Banks be Taxed?", Credit Union Times, 5/24/06.
• "Banks Look To Make Converts of Credit Unions", Washington Post, 2/11/06.
• "More and More CU Leaders Concerned Greed is Motivating Bank Conversions", Credit Union Times, 6/15/05.
• "So You Want to be a Bank? Maybe it's Time to Liquidate", Credit Union Times, 6/1/05.
• "For Years, Consultants and Greed Have Driven Coops in Other Industries to go Stock-owned; CU Wave May be Just Starting", Credit Union Times, 3/17/04.
• "Consultant Pitches Millions That Can Be Made", Credit Union Journal, 02/23/04.
• "Not Not-For-Profit", Credit Union Journal, 2/23/04.