The State Of Student Lending
Credit unions step up to empower members with responsible student lending options.
Credit unions step up to empower members with responsible student lending options.
Outstanding student loans at credit unions have increased 16.0% since second quarter 2015. Which credit unions lead the nation in student loan balances?
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Low rate environment and soaring student debt lead to growing refinance boom in student lending.
Wright-Patt CU wanted to set up a student lending program and found it could team with the new Credit Union Student Choice network.
Members 1st FCU finds early success with recent launch of private student lending solution.
Eastman CU offers full-cost student loans. It makes members for life, and delinquency rates have been low.
Take the rapidly rising costs of college education, mix in a private student loan market that has grown 450% in the last seven years alone, add a mass exodus of traditional lenders because of restricted access to capital, and you’ve got a volatile recipe for turmoil in the student loan marketplace.
Earlier in 2009, President Obama introduced his 2010 budget overview, which included plans to dramatically overhaul the current student loan financing system. To understand the impact of this proposed change on natural person credit unions involved in FFELP lending, Callahan’s Dane Coalson interviewed Mike Long, EVP& CCO of University of Wisconsin CU (UWCU).
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After years of post-pandemic splurges for the well-to-do and inflationary pain for the less well off, more Americans are shifting to a discipline of saving. Here’s what that means for members and how credit unions can turn the trend into opportunity.
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