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TRENDING: How Credit Unions Give Digital The Personal Touch

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CUs are expanding their reach to previously underserved marketplaces, too, thanks to a relaxation of hemp-related laws. New guidance published from the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) lifts the requirement to file suspicious activity reports for hemp farmers, granting them access to CU services without oversight.

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FPC 2022 Fall Member Meeting

Faster Payments Council

Regulators encourage these efforts to educate and set a high bar, as evidenced in public commentary by NCUA board member and former chair Rodney Hood. The Emerging Markets Coalition and the National Association of Cannabis Businesses have partnered to craft standards in all things money. What will this look like in the coming years?

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NEW INSIGHT: Turning Savings-Conscious Students Into Lifetime CU Members

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Dean Heller recently introduced a provision that would require the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) to hold public hearings on its budget. The bipartisan bill would enable more CUs to add underserved communities to their membership, no longer limiting this to credit unions with multiple common bond charters. Nevada Sen.