The regulator is offering a rare opportunity for input on how it handles billions in credit unions’ money, but the movement better move fast.
The NCUA’s board chair says his top priority in 2017 is returning to credit unions the several billion dollars they’re owed from the regulator’s bailout of corporate credit unions in the Great Recession.
Merging the corporate credit union fund with the share insurance fund is an idea worth considering.
Co-Ops for Change is crowd-sourcing data on each corporate credit union’s portfolio that was taken to collateralize the NCUA Guaranteed Notes (NGN).
More than $8 billion of credit union money is tied up in and around the regulator’s bailout of the corporates, but little else is really known.
The agency’s board ducks responsibility and shrouds in secrecy what’s happening with $3 billion in recoveries from the sellers of dubious private mortgage securities.
The NCUA could accomplish so much more by being open about how it plans to manage and distribute billions of dollars from the corporate credit union collapse and bailout.
The latest news should be good for credit unions invested in the failed corporates, but lack of regulator clarity makes it hard to know what’s really going on.
The need for monitoring grows as does the bank account as another $161 million is added ahead of the fund’s 2021 shutdown date.
Credit union ledgers show no froth amid larger financial industry reports about a growing subprime auto loan bubble.
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Carpe Diem! The NCUA Deadline For Comment On Bailout Funds Merger Is Here.