Articles in Credit Unions

Credit unions on the East Coast in the Northeast continued Tuesday to recover from the effects of last weekend's Hurricane and Tropical Storm Irene. While the impact along the coast was limited primarily to power outages, areas of the Northeast experienced flooding. Vermont was among the hardest hit areas. A branch of Vermont State Employees CU (VSECU) located in a state office building in Waterbury, Vt., was closed due to flooding. The branch is inaccessible, according to Terry Fields, VSECU ...

Create post While mainstream America is hoping for federal economic reform, some social justice organizations have a radically different idea, and are organizing low-income communities to build a new economy from the grassroots up. Tired of asking for change from the top down, they are taking their economy into their own hands.

Monique F. Leroux is Chair of the Board, President and CEO, Desjardins Group, one of the 3 cohosts of the 2012 International Summit of Cooperatives. In addition to heading the largest financial cooperative group in Canada, Ms. Leroux is Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Confederation of Popular Banks and a member of the Board of Directors of the European Association of Co-operative Banks. She also sits on the Board of Directors of the Conference Board of Canada and of ...