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It's a practice that raises questions about whether credit unions — which often bill themselves as the fee-friendly alternative to banks — have become too aggressively banklike in their quest for revenue.

Courtesy overdraft fees hit credit union customers, too 2009

The dominant theme of the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is fear of instability and change, which the act suppresses by subjecting the largest financial firms to banklike regulation.

The Dodd-Frank Act: Creative Destruction, Destroyed 2010

Giving the Oversight Council the ability to designate financial institutions as "threat [s] to the financial stability of the United States" because of their "scope, size, scale, concentration, interconnectedness, or mix of [their] activities" is an invitation to subject most of the major financial institutions in the United States to banklike regulation.

The Dodd-Frank Act: Creative Destruction, Destroyed 2010

As a citizen, however, I hold with the banks that the banklike CUs should no longer be shielded from tax.

Taking Aim At The People's Banks 2008

But in today's Darwinian struggle for business, it's no longer fair to leave the prosperous banklike CUs entirely untaxed.

Taking Aim At The People's Banks 2008

The nonprofit status makes credit unions exempt from income taxes, much to the chagrin of tax-paying banks - especially when they become as big and can offer as many banklike services as Summit can.

JSOnline.com 2010

But in the years before the crisis, the rules were relaxed - and, even more important, regulators failed to expand the rules to cover the growing "shadow" banking system consisting of institutions like Lehman Brothers that performed banklike functions.

AroundTheCapitol.com 2010

Subject the banklike functions of investment banks and structured investment vehicles

Econbrowser 2009