The Credit Union Wire covers cooperative finance the way trade press paid for by the industry never has — primary-source, data-driven, accountable to members.
Credit unions are $2.50 trillion[Q2 2026 final data] of member-owned American finance, serving roughly 146.1 million members[Q2 2026 final data]. They are chartered, regulated, and structurally distinct from for-profit banks. They are also covered, often, by publications dependent on vendors and organizations within the system they report on.
The Credit Union Wire exists to do the independent, data-driven reporting that beat has lacked. Our reported analysis draws on regulatory filings, court records, and public datasets. We also publish clearly labeled contributed articles, press releases, and automated credit-union profiles. We disclose funding relationships and reject any support that comes with editorial control.
Independent journalism, paired with open methodology, produces accountability that members, regulators, and policymakers act on. Vendor-sponsored trade media cannot do this work cleanly because the business model is in tension with the reporting. We can because funders, sponsors, subscribers, and customers do not get editorial influence.
Former NCUA examiner. CEO of CU WealthNext. Founded The Credit Union Wire to do the data-driven, independent reporting the cooperative finance beat has lacked. Oversees publishing standards and owns corrections.
The publisher reviews reported analysis and contributed work. Automated profiles and newswire relays follow source and validation checks, with unresolved items held for review. The publisher owns the rules and corrections.
The Credit Union Wire is published by The Credit Union Wire LLC, a Michigan limited liability company. A nonprofit conversion and federal 501(c)(3) determination are planned future steps and will be disclosed publicly when they happen.
The journalism is free to read and will remain so. Sponsorships, grants, gifts, subscriptions, and paid data-access products support the work only when they preserve the editorial wall: no story selection, no draft review, no pre-clearance, no veto, no quiet retraction, and no favorable coverage expectation.
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