Opponents ofcredit-union charter conversion to banks do not havea reasonable position.

Congress created the credit union charter in 1934 to establish small, local, mutual associations of “people of small means seeking to protect themselves from high rate money lenders.” A lot has changed in the intervening seventy years, including the transformation of many formerly mutual organizations into stock-issuing corporations, and the...

Should credit unions be able to choose to convert to mutual savings banks and change their charter accordingly, if they think that would be better?

The recently announced acquisition of Nationwide Federal Credit Union by Nationwide Bank brings a whole new perspective to the credit union conversion issue.

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