Mark A. Treichel
is the Regional Director of the Region I – Albany office. As Regional Director,
Treichel is responsible for the oversight of the chartering program for federal
credit unions and the examination and supervision programs for all federally insured
credit unions in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New
York, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Treichel joined NCUA as an examiner in 1986. He has also served as a problem case
officer, supervisory examiner, director of special actions and insurance, acting
director of risk management in the Office of Examination and Insurance, associate
regional director of operations and deputy executive director. He was named to his
current position in April 2003.
Treichel holds an accounting degree from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
NCUA created the Office of Corporate Credit Unions (OCCU) in 1994 to centralize
the supervision of the corporate credit union system through its headquarters in
Alexandria, VA. Corporate credit unions are the “credit unions’ credit union.”
Individual consumers cannot join a corporate credit union. The “natural person
credit unions” that serve individual consumers as their members, receive liquidity,
investment, and payment services from corporate credit unions. There are 28
corporate credit unions that range in asset size from $5 million to $40 billion.