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October 7, 2009
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Nance Booted From U.S. Central Due to ‘Divergent Views’ on Future
After just six months on the job, the NCUA’s Office of Corporate Credit Unions dismissed U.S. Central Federal Credit Union CEO James L. Nance on Sept. 25....
Concerns About Money and Mutuality Dominate Town Hall
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Costs to natural persons and the issue of whether they have to be connected to corporate credit unions were key issues at last Wednesday’s NCUA town hall meeting....
Corporate America Elevates Exam Dispute To Ombudsman
Corporate America Credit Union has filed a complaint with the NCUA Ombudsman that alleges an unresolved six-month exam exception dispute has cost the corporate $1.5 million....
Northwest FCU Cuts Delinquencies, Costs With E-Mails
Facing rising delinquencies but not wanting to increase costs by hiring more collections staff, Northwest Federal Credit Union came up with a high-tech solution....
Years in the Making, CUNA, NAFCU Move Closer to Agreement on Alternative Capital
After years of disagreement on how to approach the issue of supplemental capital for credit unions, CUNA and NAFCU last week ...
MasterCard Releases Survey To Steal 7-Eleven’s Thunder
Federal lawmakers were subjected to a duel by data last week. The chain 7-Eleven brought a petition to Washington purporting to show consumer support...
Keys FCU Placed in Voluntary Conservatorship; Clearstar Financial Assets Sold
The economic woes of the sand states continue to cause problems for credit unions....
TNB Changes Leaders, May Start Buying Card Portfolios Again
Steve McDonald, the new CEO of credit union-owned Town North Bank said that while the bank has no immediate plans to rejoin the market for credit union card portfolios, he would not rule it out for the future....
Dodd Reiterates Pledge
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd assured credit unions last week...
Pennsylvania FOM Ruling Seen as States’ Rights Watershed
Pennsylvania credit unions along with CUNA have won a key legal victory from a state court in the five-year legal battle with the banking lobby over “well-defined” field of membership rules....
Fidelity National Completes Metavante Merger
Fidelity National Information Services completed its merger with Metavante and has launched the new, larger firm into a new brand....
Fed Issues Proposed Rules To Implement Card Measure
The Federal Reserve last week approved proposed rules to end credit card issuers’ ability to apply payments to the lowest interest balances first....
Members United Retained Deficit Will Deplete All PIC and 40% MCS
The news coming out of Members United Corporate Federal Credit Union’s August financial reports was a transaction that won’t be recorded until September....
Conn. CU Vice Chairman Realizes His English Channel Dream
Love helped American Eagle Federal Credit Union Board Vice Chairman Raymond Gandy enter the record books by successfully swimming the English Channel....
Hyland Holds Forth on Corporates, MBL and Other Issues Facing CUs
NCUA Board Member Gigi Hyland has been active on a number of issues since joining the agency’s board in 2007 and before that...
Texas Dow CU Hands Out Some White Hats to State’s Community Banks
It’s close to high noon in Texas. Credit unions and local bankers are swaggering up Main Street from one direction and out-of-state mega-banks are approaching from the other....
Your Car Old? Dented? Fuchsia? Just Plain Smelly? US Federal Can Help
Consumers who hate their ride are heading to US Federal Credit Union for a new set of wheels....
N.C. CUs Launch National Fundraiser to Aid Injured War Vets
North Carolina credit unions have teamed up the Little Guy mascot for a new fundraising campaign...
Housing Prices Posted a Decline of Half a Percent in July
Integrated Asset Services’ latest house price index (HPI) reported a 0.5% drop in national home prices for the month of July....
N.Y. CU Makes News
Teachers Federal Credit Union’s Evalina Robinson, manager of fraud loss prevention, recently appeared on LI Talks, Long Island News 12 to discuss identity theft and fraud....
Advantis Wields Hammers and Brushes
Just in time for fall, Advantis Credit Union has helped spruce up some Portland-area homes during the REACH Community Development Paint-and-Repair-A-Thon....
N.Y. CU Leaders Lobby Congress
Representatives from all 14 chapters of the Credit Union Association of New York and executives of the association went to Washington recently...
Ascentra Credit Union Is Merging With Members Choice Community CU
Expanding its eastern Iowa growth, the $161 million Ascentra Credit Union of Bettendorf, Iowa, said it is in the process of completing a merger ...
UT FCU Re-Enrolls
Who says you can’t go home again?...
GTE FCU Announces Lay Offs and Closings
GTE Federal Credit Union announced that it laid off 5% of its workforce at its Tampa, Fla., headquarters and will be closing three branches....
Another CU Launches Branch With Goodwill
The $405 million generations Federal Credit Union, headquartered in San Antonio,...
Goldenwest Credit Union Kicks Off Mobile Branch Services
Goldenwest Credit Union has kicked off its mobile branch services with a simple text message....
Redstone FCU Comes to Rescue for YMCA
One of the South’s largest YMCA affiliates, the 300-employee Heart of the Valley YMCA of Huntsville, Ala., ...
GMT Workforce Software Goes to American Eagle
GMT Corp. said it will be deploying its GMT Planet workforce optimization solution at American Eagle Federal Credit Union in East Hartford, Conn....
Departments
Scholarships
Founders Federal Credit Union, Lancaster, S.C., announced the recipients of its 2009 Laura M. Fleming scholarship. ...
Community Events
Charter Oak Credit Union, Groton, Conn., announced that staff members participated in the second annual walk for the homeless. ...
Special Report
New Volume Mark Set by JHA Capture
More than 23 million transactions were processed in July and August by the remote deposit capture operation...
Harland Targets Credit Union Business Services
Harland Financial Solutions has launched a new enterprise platform intended especially for credit unions who want to do big business with small businesses....
Deposit From Home or Office: Your Members Are Ready. Are You?
Without a doubt, Check 21 and remote deposit capture have forever changed the business of banking....
Corelation to Offer New Platform That Was Developed by Some Old Names
Some well-known names in credit union core processing have set out on their own once again, preparing to launch...
Special Report
Editor-in-Chief's Column
Credit Unions Must Hang Together or Hang Separately
The town hall held by the NCUA last week was much livelier than the previous one. ...
You Can’t Win Them All: Focus First on the Gen Yers You Have
Last week I watched a video from the New Jersey Credit Union League of President/CEO Paul Gentile doing a man on the street survey asking people if they know what a credit union is....
Banks Playing Games on Fees
I would like to provide a quick response to the recent national coverage of Bank of America, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo cutting some overdraft fees....
Trades Continue to Be Wrong on TARP
In the discussions of alternative capital between CUNA and NAFCU (cutimes.com, Sept. 28), CUNA is once again wrong in trying to let credit unions get TARP funds....
How Much Will U.S. Central Cost?
Finally in September, we saw U.S. Central’s audited financial statements for December 2008....
Wirz: I Am Not Against Small CUs, but Do Object to the Focus on Size
An article in the Sept. 23 issue caused dissention and some anger. I have gotten calls that my remarks ...
NCBA, CUNA Are Working to Foster Greater Cooperation Among Co-Ops
As CUNA’s representative on the board of the National Cooperative Business Association, I would like to respond to Bill Slach’s letter in the Sept. 9 issue...
Staking Out The Stats
Fiserv, a provider of financial services technology solutions, recently sponsored a survey...
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