The Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund is announcing $23 million in funding for the fiscal year 2017 Bank Enterprise Awards, which encourage banks to increase their investments and loans in disadvantaged communities. The BEA program is the only program to which CDFI banks have had regular access in recent years. The first deadline in the application process for BEA funds is Nov. 16 and the final application deadline is Nov. 30.
ABA DataBank: Credit unions drifting from their core mission
In the first quarter of 2026, tax-exempt credit unions spent a combined $155.2 million on advertising and promotions and account for roughly one-third of the top 15 college sports naming rights agreements.








