Letters to Credit Unions and Other Guidance

From time to time, the NCUA will provide guidance and other information to the credit union system on regulatory and supervisory matters, trends affecting federally insured credit unions and potential risks and threats.

  • Letters to Credit Unions — Provide guidance on specific NCUA policies and procedures, compliance, governance, and other timely issues that affect all federally insured credit unions.
  • Letters to Federal Credit Unions — Provide guidance on specific NCUA policies and procedures, compliance, governance, and other timely issues that affect only credit unions with a federal charter.
  • Risk Alerts — Detail practices or external threats that potentially are a significant risk to the safety and soundness of the credit union system.
  • Regulatory Alerts — Provide guidance on rules and regulations from other agencies that all credit unions must comply with.
  • Supervisory Letters — Provide the NCUA’s examiners with instructions and information on a range of supervisory and regulatory issues.
  • Accounting Bulletins — Provide guidance and instructions on how changes in generally accepted accounting principles and other regulatory initiatives affect how credit unions report these items in their financial statements.
  • Consumer Financial Protection Updates — Announce new activity on consumer compliance laws, regulations and guidance.

You can search these regulatory letters going back to 1979 by document type, the year issued, by subject and by title or keywords. Please note that obsolete letters are not included.

Showing 61 - 120 of 842 Results
Docket # Title Subject Type Year Status
97-RA-12 Guidance for Reporting Computer-Related Crimes Cybersecurity Regulatory Alerts 1997 Active
97-RA-13 Revised Regulation C Commentary Home Mortgage Disclosure Act HMDA Regulatory Alerts 1997 Active
97-RA-14 Changes to the HMDA Reporting Requirements HMDA Regulatory Alerts 1997 Active
97-CU-04 Credit union financial trends during 1996 State of the Industry Letters to Credit Unions 1997 Active
97-CU-05 Interagency Statement on Retail On-line PC Banking Cybersecurity Letters to Credit Unions 1997 Active
97-CU-06 Year 2000 Conversion Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1997 Active
97-CU-08 Credit Union Financial Trends During the First Half of 1997 State of the Industry Letters to Credit Unions 1997 Active
97-CU-09 Withdrawal of IRPS Operations Letters to Credit Unions 1997 Active
97-CU-10 Supervisory Committees Role in Year 2000 Compliance Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1997 Active
97-CU-11 Call Report Modifications Call Report Letters to Credit Unions 1997 Active
97-CU-12 Credit Union Year 2000 Self-Analysis Guide Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1997 Active
97-CU-01 Automated Response System Controls Risk Management Letters to Credit Unions 1997 Active
97-CU-02 Supervisory Committee's Right to Hire Qualified Applicants to Perform Audits Auditing Letters to Credit Unions 1997 Active
97-CU-03 Coporate Business Resumption And Contingency Planning Business Continuity Letters to Credit Unions 1997 Active
97-01 Costs Incurred to Modify Systems and Software to Make them Year 2000 Compliant Accounting Accounting Bulletins 1997 Active
97-RA-15 FinCEN Advisory BSA/AML Regulatory Alerts 1998 Active
98-RA-01 Revisions to Regulation Z Truth in Lending Act Mortgage Lending Regulatory Alerts 1998 Active
98-RA-02 Change in Asset Threshold for Reporting Calendar Year 1998 HMDA Data HMDA Regulatory Alerts 1998 Active
98-RA-03 New Rules for Currency Transaction Reporting BSA/AML Regulatory Alerts 1998 Active
98-RA-04 Interagency Guidance on Electronic Financial Services and Consumer Compliance Consumer Protection Regulatory Alerts 1998 Active
98-RA-05 Revised Currency Transaction Report IRS Form 4789 BSA/AML Regulatory Alerts 1998 Active
98-RA-06 Exemptions from the Requirement to Report Transactions in Currency - Phase II BSA/AML Regulatory Alerts 1998 Active
98-RA-07 FinCEN Advisory BSA/AML Regulatory Alerts 1998 Active
98-RA-08 Electronic Transfer Act Payments Regulatory Alerts 1998 Active
98-CU-19 Loss Prevention on Plastic Cards Consumer Protection Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-20 Year 2000 Testing Work program Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-21 NCUA INTERNAL YEAR 2000 READINESS Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-01 Year 2000 Bridge Programs and Interfacing Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-02 Year 2000 Contingency Planning Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-03 Year 2000 Business Risk Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-04 Year 2000 Contingency Planning Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-10 Testing for Year 2000 Readiness Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-11 Information System Vendor Reviews Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-12 Business Resumption Contingency Planning Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-13 Year 2000 Testing Guidance Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-14 Electronic data collection system modifications Call Report Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-15 Year 2000 Date Change Credit Union Member Brochure Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-16 The Credit Union Membership Access Act of 1998 Legislation Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-17 Credit Union Financial Trends for the First Half of 1998 State of the Industry Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-18 The new 20 dollar bill Currency Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-05 NEW FEDERALLY-INSURED CREDIT UNION ACCOUNTS Consumer Protection Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-06 1997 credit union financial trends State of the Industry Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-07 NCUA YEAR 2000 COMPLIANCE Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-08 SAFE HARBOR AND THE FILING OF BSA/AML Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
98-CU-09 Service Provider and Software Vendor Year 2000 Readiness Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1998 Active
99-RA-05 FinCEN Advisory BSA/AML Regulatory Alerts 1999 Active
99-RA-06 Office of Foreign Assets Control BSA/AML Regulatory Alerts 1999 Active
99-RA-01 Bank Secrecy Act Compliance Form for Designation of Exempt Person BSA/AML Regulatory Alerts 1999 Active
99-RA-03 Pretext Phone Calling by Account Information Brokers Consumer Protection Regulatory Alerts 1999 Active
99-RA-04 New Communities Entering the National Flood Flood Insurance Regulatory Alerts 1999 Active
99-CU-01 Answers to Frequently Asked Questions on Year 2000 Contingency Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1999 Active
99-CU-02 Year 2000 Liquidity Planning Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1999 Active
99-CU-03 Year 2000 Federal Insurance Brochure Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1999 Active
99-CU-04 Financial Trends in Federally Insured Credit Unions 1999 State of the Industry Letters to Credit Unions 1999 Active
99-CU-05 Risk-Based Lending Consumer Lending Letters to Credit Unions 1999 Active
99-CU-06 Request for Comments on Draft Revised Call Report Call Report Letters to Credit Unions 1999 Active
99-CU-07 Restructuring of the national Small Credit Union Program SCUP Examination Program Letters to Credit Unions 1999 Active
99-CU-16 Final Preparations for the Century Date Rollover Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1999 Active
99-CU-17 Guidance for Credit Unions that Use More than One Name Operations Letters to Credit Unions 1999 Active
99-CU-18 The NCUA Central Liquidity Facility Expedited Y2K Procedures Y2K Letters to Credit Unions 1999 Active

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