NACUSO is committed to protecting a regulatory climate that fosters innovation and collaboration in the credit union industry. The Board of NACUSO is laser focused on that goal and recognizes that the regulatory environment CUSOs operate under is often much more determined in the board room at NCUA, in the state supervisory authority offices and in the director’s suite at CFPB than in the halls of Congress.
Read more on 10/5/2018: NACUSO’s Response to NCUA’s Request Regarding CUSO Oversight…
NACUSO Visits NCUA to Discuss the CUSO Registry and CUSO Reviews
On June 14, Jack Antonini, NACUSO President and Guy Messick, NACUSO General Counsel met with NCUA Staff on the results of the CUSO Registry and the thinking on how CUSO Reviews will be handled.
The CUSO Registry sign-up period and the follow-up by NCUA found there were approximately 900 CUSOs. NCUA believes that there are more CUSOs that have not reported. Under the NCUA Regulations (Part 712.1(d)), “A CUSO also includes an entity in which a CUSO has an ownership interest of any amount, if that entity is engaged primarily in providing products or services to credit unions or credit union members.” So these subsidiary CUSOs are considered CUSOs and required to make annual reports to NCUA. The NCUA staff believes that many CUSOs were not fully aware of this requirement and there are a number of subsidiary CUSOs that have not reported. NCUA will be following up with CUSOs to obtain these filings. NCUA is also scrubbing the data and asking for clarification if the data is indicating that there may have been a reporting error. Read more on NCUA Meeting Provides CUSO Guidance 6/16/16…
Through the support of our partners, NACUSO raised approximately $63,000 in contributions toward its Legal and Litigation Fund in 2014 with a primary purpose to develop strategies for the most effective way to seek the repeal and/or mitigation of the impact of the CUSO Rule that NCUA had adopted in November 2013. Subsequently, NACUSO established an Advocacy Fund to supplement the Legal and Litigation Fund. The goal of the two funds together were to enable NACUSO to coordinate legal decision making, with a crucial advocacy component that will have more impact than the always risky option of legal action. In total, $190,600 was contributed to the NACUSO Advocacy Fund. Combined these two related initiatives received total contributions from NACUSO partners of approximately $253,600 in 2014 and 2015.
In keeping with our commitment to be fully transparent and to regularly communicate our usage of these dollars, we would like to provide you with the following information. NACUSO spent the following amounts from the two funds during 2014 and 2015:
Read more on Report on Advocacy Fund spending…NACUSO Working for you…
As most of you know, all CUSOs are obligated under the NCUA Regulations to register certain information directly with NCUA on an annual basis. Over 800 CUSOs did so in February and March. NCUA is now in the process of making sure all CUSOs have registered. Their new deadline is April 30. They are taking CUSO information from the credit union 5300 call reports and sending out letters reminding “CUSOs” that they have to register. Some credit unions may have incorrectly listed a company as a CUSO. Other credit unions list their CUSO but use an acronym for the CUSO instead of the CUSO’s full name. NCUA, not knowing better is sending letters to any and all companies listed on the call reports. Read more on CUSO Registry Clean Up Period 4/22/16…
